Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] '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 |