Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 2 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 3 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 4 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 5 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 6 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 7 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 8 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 9 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 10 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 11 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 12 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 13 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 14 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |
| 16 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 17 | I have been doing this for over ten years . |
| 18 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 19 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 20 | I have been keeping fit with swimming . |
| 21 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 22 | Fleet Street , which has been spending millions for years trying get the formula right , holds the opposite point of view . |
| 23 | Jim is a founder member of the Elderslie Boys Club — which has been going strong in the area for seven years — and the Stoddards employee has himself contributed 17 years to Boys football . |
| 24 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 25 | People living near a rubbish tip which has been burning unchecked for six weeks fear their health is at risk . |
| 26 | The springer which had been lying buttered on the floor midway between the two slewed an eye in the direction of Vanessa Dersingham when she spoke . |
| 27 | In 1986 there was new legislation to restore these traditional colours to houses in the island and banning the use of unpainted aluminium for windows , gates and so on , which have been spoiling many of the traditional buildings . |
| 28 | The rapist , who has been living rough in wooded , hilly countryside , grabbed his latest victim in a village near Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 29 | Our disclosure will of course interest Fergie , who has been spending most of her time with John Bryan but undoubtedly still wears the red and black £100-apiece underwear which she bought from Janet . |
| 30 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |