Example sentences of "'ve [be] making " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 5 | I 've been making notes on it , all evening . |
| 6 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy , I 've been making models and carvings , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ For your information I 've been making a cradle for Maggie 's baby while you was gone , ’ she said . |
| 8 | THEY 'VE been making room for murder at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford this week , and proved that given the right stage , crime certainly does pay . |
| 9 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been making a lot of noise ’ , the mining man is alleged to have said . |
| 11 | Not bad for two blokes whose life story is ‘ We 've been making music as a hobby for eight years , and now we want the money ! ’ |
| 12 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 13 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 14 | I suppose I 've been making a fool of myself . |
| 15 | As for Houseparties — well , I 've been making friends with the villa girls who run them on islands throughout the Med ; I 've sailed the Turkish coast on a ‘ Gulet ’ , and gone island-hopping in Greece on the luxurious motor yacht ‘ SunSun ’ — they 're all really floating Houseparties . |
| 16 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 18 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 19 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been making enquiries on your behalf and I 'm astounded — astounded ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Form a long line along the piece of road you 've been making and search the forest to the north . ’ |
| 22 | We 've been making inquiries and learned that Mr Putt has been seen wearing one rather similar . |
| 23 | Well I 've been making Christmas cake this morning so I feel quite er happy with myself . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've been making a fool of yourself , dripping around like some lovesick teenager . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been making several very funny speeches and no bugger has laughed , so I 'm coming down . ’ |
| 26 | Right , he probably does think that , but is n't it interesting er does n't this illustrate the point we 've been making that he felt he needed to have a play that , strung that historical cord as it were . |
| 27 | It would take too long to get the computer up and do it for you , but erm you can take that away with you if , if you like , that just makes the same points I 've been making now , but using a computer simulator . |
| 28 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 29 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 30 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |