Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been writing cheques to Rob Thomas . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been writing songs about prison ever since I started writing songs . |
| 3 | I 've been watching videos most of the day . |
| 4 | But that day that that woman phoned up the house erm she said I 've been watching Neighbours or something |
| 5 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 6 | " You 've been telling lies . " |
| 7 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been handing weapons out to the Serbs for months . ’ |
| 9 | Every day this week we 've been printing stickers of the Grands Prix that Mansell won . |
| 10 | I 've been drinking vodkas all night . |
| 11 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been out-machoing men and bedding women with that story for twenty years . ’ |
| 13 | At last , seeing the impatient glint in his eyes , she drew a long breath and said , ‘ I 've been thinking things over — thinking very deeply — and I 've come to the conclusion that your idea of merging our two practices is , after all , the most sensible solution to our problem . ’ |
| 14 | I feel a lot more at ease since I 've been using prostitutes . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 16 | And er , I 've been learning flats and sharps and all that . |
| 17 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 18 | well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been controlling games and still letting goals in , ’ he conceded . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 21 | Tell me what you 've been doing , while I 've been moving mountains . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been moving patients to other hospitals . |
| 23 | ‘ They 've been buying postcards . |
| 24 | Yes there is I 've been , yeah I 've been I 've been buying shares er Excon shares in a share p er a share purchase |
| 25 | I 've been buying bars and bars of that see . |
| 26 | Mm , well obviously they 've been casting bonds and tell judgment |
| 27 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 28 | We 've been incurring costs on two fronts , redundancy and also reducing factory stocks , short time working and this has brought down margins and profits , but the cash flow 's improving and despite poor conditions in Europe and Japan er , volume and unit value of orders is er , increasing slowly . |
| 29 | I 've been organising classes … ’ |
| 30 | She said , and a lot of the time , she said , he 's a , he 's a little sod , she said , but you know , she said , I mean , it 's not all bad things about him , and I said , I 've been hearing things about you from Miss , and she oh , what she 's been bloody saying , I bet she 's been saying I 'm crap at English . |