Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 2 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 3 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 4 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 5 | " I expect you 've been watching those " Bleakland " programmes , have n't you , Grandmother ? " |
| 6 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 7 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 8 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |
| 9 | Ca n't believe you 've been watching all this television . |
| 10 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 11 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 12 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 13 | I know you 've been investigating that horrible Martin man , even though you 've tried to keep it quiet , so here you are . ’ |
| 14 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose you 've been reading all about it in the papers ? ’ |
| 16 | I suppose you 've been watching that as well . |
| 17 | ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ? |
| 18 | ‘ We feel we have been considering each other too much . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 20 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , yer do n't mean you 'ave been doin' that , do yer ? ’ |
| 23 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 25 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 26 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 27 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 28 | So long as you wait , I think you 've been doing this all day . |
| 29 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 30 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |