Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] 've [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 2 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 4 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 5 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 6 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 7 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 8 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 9 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 10 | But I do n't know what wind you 've been listening to . |
| 11 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 12 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 13 | Right or the other shapes we 've been talking about . |
| 14 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 15 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 17 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 18 | Part-time job that offers the flexibility you 've been looking for . |
| 19 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 20 | But it 's in having said that it 's an interesting fact that the knitted fabric as such we know , is a warm sort of comfortable fabric and it 's obviously used in where I call the , the cold climes , and that , that 's why it 's developed in the very areas we 've been talking about . |
| 21 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 22 | And that 's an encouraging line because those of us , and I include myself who am not always articulate , who ca n't always get the , the words together to make a sentence and finish it , can try nevertheless to come up with something which is interesting , can contain the ‘ Hey , this is for you , ’ for the audience , along the lines we 've been talking about yesterday . |
| 23 | Oh wanted a word with you see how much money you 've been putting in my , and we 're going for a mortgage now . |
| 24 | " This could be the opportunity you 've been waiting for , " she said slowly , her eyes black shadows in her face . |
| 25 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've a rather special wine I 've been saving for you to sample , Naylor , ’ Guthrie addressed his nephew as they began to tuck into a starter of scampi in flaky pastry . |
| 27 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 28 | And this ’ — he spread an arm out — ‘ is the amateur group I 've been supporting over the past years . ’ |
| 29 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 30 | ‘ It 's the moment we 've been waiting for ! ’ |