Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been looking out for you . " |
| 2 | And that 's what they 've been cut off for . |
| 3 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 4 | you know , I mean they were so good when they came here but I mean they 've been shut in for months now ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 6 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 7 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 8 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 9 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 10 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 11 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 12 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 14 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 16 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 17 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 18 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 20 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 21 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 22 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 23 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 24 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 25 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |