Example sentences of "'ve [be] sitting " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 2 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 3 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been sitting around twiddling our thumbs for some of the time and people have been sloping off early , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've actually been trying to make up one about you , Miss Honey , while we 've been sitting here . ’ |
| 6 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 7 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |
| 8 | Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions . |
| 9 | You 've been sitting in a side road waiting to come out , and you see a vehicle coming along and it 's got its left-hand indicator on and you think Oh lovely ! |
| 10 | I 've been sitting here and thinking about God . |
| 11 | You 've been sitting behind a desk for too long . |
| 12 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 13 | " Silly , really , I 've been sitting here puzzling about what to do and it 's suddenly clear . " |
| 14 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 15 | Do n't ask me Matt , I 've been sitting talking for many long days |
| 16 | And you know I 've been sitting an hour . |
| 17 | I 've been sitting here since two o'clock my two o'clock cup of coffee . |
| 18 | " I 've been sitting here worried sick . " |
| 19 | Every time I 've passed the studio you 've been sitting with your head bent , scribbling away . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been sitting there the whole morning in nothing but that flimsy shift , just staring through the window at all that water . |
| 22 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 23 | Emma , you 've been sitting there very quietly and judiciously . |
| 24 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 25 | Obviously you know when you 've been sitting still this is probably the worse hour of the day . |
| 26 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 27 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 28 | Or some of the time I 've been sitting there in the bed feeding the baby , you know |
| 29 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 30 | I said I 've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous . |