Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one I 've been telling you all about . ’ |
| 2 | Please do n't say I 've been telling you this . |
| 3 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
| 4 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 5 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 6 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
| 7 | I 've been watching him these past few weeks — spying on him , you might say — and I 've seen how he surrounds himself with cronies . |
| 8 | I 've been watching you these past few days , and you 're incredibly tense . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw you — turn on to the road — from the station — and I 've been following you all this way ! ’ |
| 10 | I 've been giving him half of it . |
| 11 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
| 12 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 13 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |
| 14 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 15 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
| 16 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
| 17 | But since there is obviously a market for the invention of new mountain pursuits , I have been giving it some thought . |
| 18 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 19 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 20 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 21 | You 've been hurrying me all the way . " |
| 22 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 23 | The Germans who have been facing us all these weeks have pulled out and are now dug in in a thickly wooded area about three-hundred yards from No. 4 Commando . |
| 24 | Oh who 's been telling you all this ? |
| 25 | And we have been doing it all our lives . |
| 26 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 27 | It 's a legal document … but they 've been telling me that all along . |
| 28 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 29 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 30 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |