Example sentences of "i [vb base] been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been checking on you , Angel , ’ he started , quietly but firmly . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 6 | I 've been working on her image for some time now . |
| 7 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 8 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 9 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 10 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 11 | I knew those had been painted over ten years before , I said to him , ‘ Is this an old painting or a new painting ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , I 've been working on it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been working on the unionization of women in Kampur for several years now , ’ she said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Probably wo n't come as a surprise to you , but er , I 've been working on a training system . |
| 16 | Senior Midland area and I 've been working on a job in Coventry which is basically work er what I hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so I can overcome basic nervousness when speaking . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been working on a report and I 've only just realised how late it is . |
| 18 | Alan Anderson , Monsanto Quality Manager , presented the award and made these comments : ‘ I had a personal interest in this one because I 've been working on the application of quality to safety management which is what the Rubber Chemicals Safety Improvement team is all about . |
| 19 | er , then , so that 's at least , well in fact that 's more than sufficient , I should get paid more than six hours because I 've been working on the students , on the disabled games all day Friday |
| 20 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 21 | From the air I do n't have that problem but , curiously , when I 've been shooting on the ground in China I 've relished the people everywhere . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope you do n't feel I 've been spying on you . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been lying on the bed . |
| 24 | I 've been lying on the bed with G.P. 's picture beside me . |
| 25 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 26 | I 've been knocking on doors the other night there . |
| 27 | The dossers and down-and-outs of Glasgow between 1985 and 1987 , then a different kind of hooligan , then onto a series of a little boy with a yacht and then in 1990–1 I did a huge series of faces and , in the last year , I 've been concentrating on thug images with bow necks and caps and dogs . |
| 28 | The dossers and down-and-outs of Glasgow between 1985 and 1987 , then a different kind of hooligan , then onto a series of a little boy with a yacht and then in 1990–1 I did a huge series of faces and , in the last year , I 've been concentrating on thug images with bow necks and caps and dogs . |
| 29 | I 've been concentrating on my technique , so soon I could try working straight on to the plate . |
| 30 | I 've been concentrating on trying |