Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 2 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 5 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 6 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 7 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |
| 13 | Now obviously that requires a more precise working knowledge of newspapers and the other media , what they want , when and how they need it , what the sort of particular publication is , you 've been discussing some of that and we can perhaps go into some of that in , in a bit more detail a bit later on . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose you 've been reading all about it in the papers ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 16 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |
| 17 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 18 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 19 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 20 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
| 21 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 22 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 23 | We 've been doing these for about six . |
| 24 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 25 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 26 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 27 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 28 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 29 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 30 | They 've been planning this for months . |