Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [det] time " in BNC.

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1 waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them .
2 its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its
3 Were open I mean there 's been lots of things done like that I mean you maybe aware of this sort of jazz in the Gilbey bar on Saturday lunch time and that 's been running some time then it 'll cease to come back again you know if you 'll actually counting on the people actually coming cos of the jazz there I think as your looking at it it was slightly up it was n't a was n't great influx because there was jazz available so yeah we 'll certainly look introducing things into different areas of the theatre but from past experience it does n't automatically follow that if you can do that then you know it 's gon na happen .
4 Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her ,
5 ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping .
6 Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered .
7 Alexei Pavlov , a marketing manager with the Ukraina Bank and Slava Tkatchenko , head of international payments at Gradobank , have been spending some time at Girobank to see how UK banks operate .
8 When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family .
9 The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year .
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