Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 2 | But erm , that 's the idea , you see , that these kids , er well , you know , they may be delinquent , and do lots of nasty things , but it 's only the way they 've been treated by society . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been looking into Harry Martin 's activities ? ’ |
| 4 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 5 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | And , faith , since we married I 've been pressed into service as one more brother to him , a father , too , since his own father died when the boy was barely thirteen . |
| 13 | Yeah , but your saying been in , erm they may have happened to you , I 've been bashed into time and time again |
| 14 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been asked by Mr |
| 17 | They 've been cut with gas axe . |
| 18 | They do n't feel they 've been robbed of anonymity . |
| 19 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |
| 20 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 21 | Pauline : We 've been threatened by Steve Lamacq ! ! ! |
| 22 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 24 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 25 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |
| 26 | I 've been hoping against hope you two would get together ! ’ |
| 27 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 29 | " I 've been living at Moorlake . |
| 30 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |