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 . ’ |