Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [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 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
| 9 | I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 12 | You 've been straining at gnats , Jesus said , and yet , you 've allowed the big issues to go by without bothering with them . |
| 13 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 14 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been listening at keyholes , have you ? |
| 18 | I 've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day . |
| 19 | But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you . |
| 20 | You 've been raving about galleons and sea creatures . ’ |
| 21 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 22 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
| 24 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 25 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 26 | I 've been going to meetings for a while now ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ They 've been arriving in scores , each delegation with one appointed English speaker ’ said an official . |
| 28 | They 've been working on farms , it seems . ’ |
| 29 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 30 | So they 've been working on modifications and this year , oh we will we 'll put the modifications right and then come back with another sales pitch |