Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] [pron] [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 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
6 | I 've been using it all the time . |
7 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I 've been watching you these past few days , and you 're incredibly tense . |
10 | ‘ I saw you — turn on to the road — from the station — and I 've been following you all this way ! ’ |
11 | I 've been giving him half of it . |
12 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
13 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
14 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
15 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
16 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |
17 | ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look . |
18 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
19 | 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 . |
20 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
21 | But since there is obviously a market for the invention of new mountain pursuits , I have been giving it some thought . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
24 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
25 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
26 | You 've been hurrying me all the way . " |
27 | Her thin lip curled in a rare smile — one might say she had been pursuing her own studies . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
30 | 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 . |