Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 2 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
| 3 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 4 | As I mentioned , you 've been getting some advocacy experience , although you might not have realized it , in litigation already . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 6 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 7 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 8 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 9 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
| 11 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 12 | I 've been giving some thought to the content of the next magazine with which I hope you can help . |
| 13 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 14 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of Rural Wales/ Cymru Wledig , and to the contribution you could make . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been giving some thought to our — problem , ’ he stated . |
| 16 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 17 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 18 | Whilst librarians have been saved some paperwork , statistics of use for individual theses will now be impossible to obtain from BLDSC , and the present type of research methodology will no longer be practicable . |
| 19 | Where one-off items have been selected some stores will reserve them for you , but you may have to buy them yourself if they are n't chosen . |
| 20 | British banks have been granted some £2,250 million in tax relief on bad loans to developing countries , according to official figures . |
| 21 | I HAVE been left some money by my grandmother and have decided to buy myself a car with it . |
| 22 | ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all . |
| 23 | Alexei Pavlov , a marketing manager with the Ukraina Bank and Slava Tkatchenko , head of international payments at Gradobank , have been spending some time at Girobank to see how UK banks operate . |
| 24 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 25 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 26 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 27 | It might be possible for people in such circumstances ( perhaps when redundancies have been notified some weeks in advance ) to be supported and perhaps taught techniques to cope with the anxiety and avoid being overpessimistic or ‘ catastrophising ’ ( see next section ) . |