Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 2 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 3 | That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been sentenced to death . |
| 5 | I 've been hoping against hope you two would get together ! ’ |
| 6 | Three weeks ago I found a lump in one of my breasts and since then I 've been paralysed with fear . |
| 7 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been thinking about convert these speakers this time |
| 11 | So you can , what what I 'm thinking of now is not so much , I 've been thinking of stuff that you have done , and that if you sort of spend a little bit of , not much time , maybe ten minutes on each topic , just having a little look at it and finding a problem , this is the sort of problem I was doing a month or two ago , can I do this one ? |
| 12 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 13 | Yes , Mr Chairman , I , erm , I , I , I do appreciate that erm , I 've been invited through Committee er , to go through what I do represent er , the building project erm , on behalf of the economic development , because as you all know , I 'm of course on the economic development before , but er , in the past I 've found that that I have er been , shall we say , relieved of my positions on other er , position , erm , unknownst to myself , and of course I have er , actually turned up on these planning functions and been there , and to me in the past , I have always found that if one is going to be missed one must then , one 's either asked if he wishes to continue , if he 's been doing his job properly , if he does n't do his job properly then it 's only right to replace him . |
| 14 | Yeah , but your saying been in , erm they may have happened to you , I 've been bashed into time and time again |
| 15 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 16 | I 've been trained on union education courses , the same as you people have out there today , this union spends a tremin tremendous amount of money on training shop stewards to challenge such agreements . |
| 17 | And , faith , since we married I 've been pressed into service as one more brother to him , a father , too , since his own father died when the boy was barely thirteen . |
| 18 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 21 | You see , I 've been approached by Minister Chuang . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 23 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been left with egg on my face . |
| 25 | Ooh I ca n't stop yawning I 've been going into work a bit earlier lately |
| 26 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 27 | I 've been working for Radio Skerne for about six years now . |
| 28 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 29 | And so I 've tried to open it up er rather wider and w what I 've I 've I 've been put in touch with a a thing called the independent schools , design and technology association , which covers design and technology studies in all independent schools . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been dogged by humbug for years , ’ he told me . |