Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 3 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 4 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 5 | 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 … ’ |
| 6 | No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must |
| 7 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 8 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 9 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 10 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 12 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 13 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 14 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 15 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 16 | All I 've been introduced to that bloke as Sally 's friend ! |
| 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 | I 've been playing with that idea all day . |
| 21 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 22 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 23 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 24 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 25 | You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been wondering about that , ’ Cranston replied . |
| 27 | I 'm just wondering why , cos someone 's been dealing with that |
| 28 | The debate which deals with these matters will be referred to and the conceptual apparatus which has been developed in that debate will be used where appropriate . |
| 29 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 30 | A vertical thread on the chart showed the actual number of vehicles which had been completed to that stage at a given time . |