Example sentences of "just been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |
2 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
3 | We 've just been ironing it , sellotaping it and refolding it . |
4 | ‘ No-one has been here only me and Miss Morgan , just been bathing me , she has , see ? ’ |
5 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
6 | Er Mr , you have of course just been reading your special statement , erm document number five , and there is left the erm additional two pages which makes these er submissions . |
7 | " Just been watching you on the box — you have n't changed at all . |
8 | Is n't that what you 've just been telling me ? |
9 | ‘ Feargal has just been telling me how you helped out this morning , and your idea of putting pictures on the menus . |
10 | Geoffrey 's just been telling me all about it . |
11 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
12 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
13 | ‘ Leith 's just been telling me that you both work for the same firm , ’ he put on a front for the rest of the world to joke . |
14 | ‘ As I have just been telling your nurse , I 'm having trouble listening to a chest . |
15 | Id only just been telling my girlfriend my favourite quip about how he only scores because he s SO ugly he scares the defenders . |
16 | Though , ever a man to confuse her , he greeted her pleasantly , ‘ Good morning , darling , ’ and , in case she had n't got the message that the endearment was only on account of their audience , ‘ I 've just been telling my uncle that we 'll be leaving after breakfast . ’ |
17 | You 've just been telling us all what a relief it was to get out of the city . ’ |
18 | He 's just been telling us about how this bloke 's condoms dropped out of his pocket . |
19 | British Rail have n't had anything at all to report to us , and the local bus company 's just been telling us that things are running fine . |
20 | Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on . |
21 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
22 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
23 | I 've just been borrowing you . |
24 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
25 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
26 | Oh I see I must of just been putting it down at that time |
27 | Sir I 've just been recording you . |
28 | He 's just been cleaning our window . |
29 | Could he really make a million before he was forty , or had Becky just been teasing him ? |
30 | Mr Wolfe had just been doing his customary job of explaining to the passengers why we were late : ‘ We have an emergency situation which is not a real alarm situation . ’ |