Example sentences of "'ve be [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been writing cheques to Rob Thomas . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been writing songs about prison ever since I started writing songs . |
| 3 | Do you think that the er it must be the war , the first world war , if you 've been watching Testament of Youth , Fear and Britain 's Testament of Youth , which I read years ago |
| 4 | You 've been watching House of Elliot . |
| 5 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 6 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |
| 7 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 8 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been telling Veronica about the week we had in Scotland . |
| 10 | Every day this week we 've been printing stickers of the Grands Prix that Mansell won . |
| 11 | a while to transpose , I 've been printing stuff on card recently , |
| 12 | Sometimes I 've been drinking tea with a Sherpa friend of mine in the village of Kundy and there 'll be a clatter up the stairs caused by a dozen people saying ‘ We understand Hillary 's here ’ , as if that gives them the right to charge in and take over . ’ |
| 13 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 14 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 16 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 17 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been moving patients to other hospitals . |
| 19 | We 've been incurring costs on two fronts , redundancy and also reducing factory stocks , short time working and this has brought down margins and profits , but the cash flow 's improving and despite poor conditions in Europe and Japan er , volume and unit value of orders is er , increasing slowly . |
| 20 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 21 | She said , and a lot of the time , she said , he 's a , he 's a little sod , she said , but you know , she said , I mean , it 's not all bad things about him , and I said , I 've been hearing things about you from Miss , and she oh , what she 's been bloody saying , I bet she 's been saying I 'm crap at English . |
| 22 | I 've been hearing rumours about his methods of taming his crew … things to make your hair stand on end . |
| 23 | I 've been no I 've been taking kind of palpitations , I do n't know , and I 'm as tired as |
| 24 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 25 | They 've been taking part in Playday '92 … a national event emphasising the importance of play . |
| 26 | After Black Sheep , Paul went on to be involved with Racer X , and so on , but yeah , I 've been taking care of his gear for many years now … ’ |
| 27 | I 've been getting attacks of giddiness and I 'm not sleeping well . |
| 28 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 29 | I could n't agree more with those who 've been praising Newsome for his performances over the Christmas games . |
| 30 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |