Example sentences of "i [vb base] been [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you what it is — it 's only bogland and I should know for I 've been lookin' at them fields for years . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been staying at her place for some weeks now , in order to help her maintain the tight control on her blood sugar that 's so vital , especially in the first three months , but that 's becoming impractical . |
| 3 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 4 | " I 've been living at Moorlake . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been looking at your expense account , Brian , ’ says Vic , turning over a small pile of bills and receipts . |
| 6 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 7 | I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping . |
| 8 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 9 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 10 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 11 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 12 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 13 | I 've been looking at the knives again . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been looking at the basin where the sewage tank used to be . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 16 | You 'd be on the line for a certain amount of publicity , but I 've been looking at today 's papers and it seems you 've already had a taste of what the Press can be like … ’ |
| 17 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 18 | IN view of all the talk about a resumption of political talks , I 've been looking at the last word of the Ulster Unionists on the subject , delivered just before the plug was pulled last October . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 20 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 21 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 22 | Oh I du n no , I 've been looking at a few , not that probably , not in the top ten |
| 23 | I must know how , I 've been looking at at the . |
| 24 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
| 25 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 26 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 27 | Ranjan Gohin , 36 , summed up the mood saying : ‘ I 've been working at John Lewis for 14 years and I do n't think this will put me off . |
| 28 | I did n't see it , I 've been working at the office . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 30 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |