Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [v-ing] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs yeah Shrimp , you got good English ! |
| 2 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs . |
| 3 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 5 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 6 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
| 7 | No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must |
| 8 | ‘ Listen , kiddo , I 've been thinking about this . |
| 9 | I 've been thinking about this , sir — well , I 've had nothing else to think about . |
| 10 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 12 | I 've been thinking about this , too . |
| 13 | I 've been thinking about these requests for miracles . |
| 14 | I 've been thinking about these blinds for such a long time . |
| 15 | But I 've been thinking about next week . |
| 16 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 17 | I 've been brooding about that myself ever since I heard . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been wondering about that , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I 've been wondering about that myself . |
| 20 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
| 21 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 22 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 23 | erm , moving on , erm audio description in Scotland , no er since this , the last meeting , yes Cath and I have been talking about all that money , we had an entertaining day out |
| 24 | ‘ I have been wondering about that , ’ Cranston replied . |
| 25 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 27 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 28 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |