Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers .
2 Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow .
3 Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow .
4 Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow .
5 Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow .
6 I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged .
7 But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs .
8 I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely .
9 Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on .
10 I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required …
11 Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before .
12 The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days .
13 I 've been searching for ages . ’
14 and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos
15 I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow .
16 ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet .
17 I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’
18 I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’
19 I 've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day .
20 I 've been waiting for ages . ’
21 I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning .
22 I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’
23 I 've been coming to games at the Manor since I was 10 … not every week like but since three seasons ago I have n't missed a match — I 've been to them all .
24 I 've been going to meetings for a while now ’ .
25 If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures .
26 It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money .
27 I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me .
28 I 've been travelling for hours .
29 I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking .
30 I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’
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