Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] be [verb] [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 | So what I want you to do is to follow these little chips er dimples here , they 're on this stone there 're a few on that but not on here , so that bit it goes in that direction . |
| 7 | All we can do I think is resist this strongly and the whole idea for reorganization particularly this time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Mr Hooke says he has been told that Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ca n't believe you 've been watching all this television . |
| 13 | Yeah , on tape You know this ah , it 's the , the actual letter says we would like you to do , what we would like you to do is to record all your conversations with other people except telephone conversations over a , over a one week period , erm , but that 's , that 's not , does n't quite , just need to record as much as I can . |
| 14 | What I 'd like you to do is do this question again now okay ? |
| 15 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 16 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I know you 've been investigating that horrible Martin man , even though you 've tried to keep it quiet , so here you are . ’ |
| 19 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose you 've been reading all about it in the papers ? ’ |
| 21 | I suppose you 've been watching that as well . |
| 22 | ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ? |
| 23 | ‘ We feel we have been considering each other too much . |
| 24 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 25 | I understand it 's been offered several homes so that would be nice . |
| 26 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 27 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 28 | ‘ All we ask them to do is to visit any Royal Bank Branch , answer a few questions — and we 'll provide a quotation within three days , ’ said Norman . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , yer do n't mean you 'ave been doin' that , do yer ? ’ |