Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] 've [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ?
2 What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ?
3 Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel
4 he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got .
5 ‘ I hope you do n't feel I 've been spying on you . ’
6 That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’
7 ‘ So you still deny you 've been sleeping with Garry ? ’
8 ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’
9 You mean she thinks you 've been spying for me !
10 ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’
11 You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months .
12 Even after what I just learned I could n't believe you 've been lying to me since we met — that I was coming back to ask you — ’
13 ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy .
14 ‘ I just wanted to you know I 've been thinking of you . ’
15 I know I 've been behaving like a pig , comme un porco , for a bit , but please read all my letters from the Jungle and you 'll see I 'm a changed man .
16 ‘ I know you 've been sleeping with my husband . ’
17 Peter , I know you 've been talking to delegates all day , what 's the atmosphere like there ? *
18 Fastext for quick access to teletext and a full function infra-red remote control make this small portable the second set you 've been waiting for !
19 For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself .
20 ‘ I suppose you 've been speaking against her ? ’ he added angrily to Joseph Poorgrass .
21 Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year
22 There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly .
23 Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ?
24 But ever since you 've gone they 've been conspiring against me , plotting , and — ’
25 As all the world knows I 'm now 61 so it follows I 've been playing for yonks , interrupted only by a broken leg and two children .
26 To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood !
27 Ooh I ca n't stop yawning I 've been going into work a bit earlier lately
28 I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect .
29 Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week .
30 Erm , oh I have got something else , which is music , erm , at the last meeting I said I 've been talking to Simon from the Queen 's Hall , about the idea of doing pre-concert notes
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