Example sentences of "'ve [adv] been [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
| 2 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 3 | I 've just been thinking about you . " |
| 4 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 5 | And every generation , as we 've just been talking about , is going to have its misers creating other forms of famine . |
| 6 | I think , if we 're going to be realistic , there are practical dangers for that , that can put in danger erm some of the things we 've just been talking about . |
| 7 | Or is that what we 've just been talking about ? ’ |
| 8 | It 's a letter from the Executive Services Officer that states , rule six , which is the one I 've just been talking about on the previous motion , is quite clear in saying that only individual members can pursue appeals and not a branch . |
| 9 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 10 | I mean , it 's not divorced from the things that we 've just been talking about |
| 11 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |
| 12 | It would have to be , given what we 've just been talking about . |
| 13 | Which is the one we 've just been talking about . |
| 14 | ( We 've just been talking about you . |
| 15 | Hello my love we 've just been talking about you . |
| 16 | So what that booklet does , is do the bit that we 've just been talking about . |
| 17 | We 've just been talking about |
| 18 | If like one or two of us who are thinking about it you 've already been thinking about it you 've got two or three of these complete already . |
| 19 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |