Example sentences of "[noun] and [pers pn] 've been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
2 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
3 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |
4 | A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it |
5 | Byron was my hero and they 've been slogging it out ever since . |
6 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
7 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
8 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
9 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
10 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
11 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
12 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |
13 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
14 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
15 | I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’ |
16 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
17 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
18 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
19 | Very exciting stuff and I 've been telling her not to speak so loudly . |
20 | I arrived on Sunday and I 've been revisiting the old places . |
21 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
22 | And anyway it 's in the paper in the paper this week and they 've been saying that er the outrage the residents ! |
23 | She thinks she 'll be away for a week and I 've been wondering who I could get to look after the house . " |
24 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
25 | Senior Midland area and I 've been working on a job in Coventry which is basically work er what I hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so I can overcome basic nervousness when speaking . |
26 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
27 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
28 | I sent him away after supper and I 've been finishing Emma . |
29 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
30 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |