Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been watching television . |
| 3 | Do you think that the er it must be the war , the first world war , if you 've been watching Testament of Youth , Fear and Britain 's Testament of Youth , which I read years ago |
| 4 | You 've been watching House of Elliot . |
| 5 | Now what is the point of saving money if you 're in a job and you 're worried about being made redundant when , if you become redundant you are ineligible for housing benefit because you 've been saving money . |
| 6 | I 've been filling time wherever I am . |
| 7 | At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell . |
| 8 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 9 | Every day this week we 've been printing colour pictures of the team captains and their strip for you to paste on to your chart . |
| 10 | a while to transpose , I 've been printing stuff on card recently , |
| 11 | ‘ Paul , you 've been drinking whisky . |
| 12 | If you 've been drinking beer you can you ca n't smell beer on anybody else , can you ? |
| 13 | Sometimes I 've been drinking tea with a Sherpa friend of mine in the village of Kundy and there 'll be a clatter up the stairs caused by a dozen people saying ‘ We understand Hillary 's here ’ , as if that gives them the right to charge in and take over . ’ |
| 14 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 15 | I 've been using Lotus 1-2-3 to draw various graphs from the data I collect each week . |
| 16 | They 've been using flight manouevres last seen in the Vietnam war to avoid being hit by gunfire from the ground . |
| 17 | I ca n't spea cos I 've been learning German I ca n't remember it . |
| 18 | " You 've been eating cake . " |
| 19 | Huh me sitting here and you 've been eating blood supper . |
| 20 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 21 | I 've been trying mail order . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 23 | They 've been serving coffee here for three hundred years , ’ he confided . |
| 24 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 25 | I 've been no I 've been taking kind of palpitations , I do n't know , and I 'm as tired as |
| 26 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 27 | They 've been taking part in Playday '92 … a national event emphasising the importance of play . |
| 28 | After Black Sheep , Paul went on to be involved with Racer X , and so on , but yeah , I 've been taking care of his gear for many years now … ’ |
| 29 | And he added , in a voice that would have done credit to an elder of the Wee Frees , ‘ If he is yer brother , then ye 've been committin' incest . |
| 30 | Not bad for two blokes whose life story is ‘ We 've been making music as a hobby for eight years , and now we want the money ! ’ |