Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 2 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 3 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 4 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 5 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |
| 6 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 7 | We have that many er applications I mean I 've just gone through A division and I 've got er a pile of cards literally an inch thick with people a made an initial inquiry or b they 've been furnished with questionnaires and not been returned , so I 'm sending those er right through the divisions |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been inundated with letters , ’ she says , then corrects herself . |
| 9 | I 've been inundated with calls . |
| 10 | We 've been inundated with calls from listeners wanting to know where you were . |
| 11 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
| 13 | I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’ |
| 15 | By and large they 've been replaced by computers now . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been pestered by reporters for days , and it really is getting on my nerves . ’ |
| 18 | You 've been straining at gnats , Jesus said , and yet , you 've allowed the big issues to go by without bothering with them . |
| 19 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 20 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 21 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 22 | Equitable treatments must be devised that recognize economic sacrifices ( whether they 've been made by men or women ) as well as economic achievements . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been hooked on crisps for years . |
| 24 | It 's sometimes the case when you look at adult survivors of child sex abuse that erm some of these physiological responses are detached from pleasure and experienced in a very ah traumatic and very de-humanising way so that y'know kind of having orgasms is n't pleasurable sometimes for people who 've been abused as children . |
| 25 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 26 | Erm er also um I 've stuck in a note about the difficulty in interpreting the consequences of abuse erm because of the way in which um you may find , as did , looking at people who 've been abused as children er versus people who have n't . |
| 27 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been deluged with stories about the American nuclear industry over the past few years . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been listening at keyholes , have you ? |
| 30 | I 've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day . |