Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Listen , kiddo , I 've been thinking about this . |
2 | I 've been thinking about this , sir — well , I 've had nothing else to think about . |
3 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
4 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
5 | I 've been thinking about this , too . |
6 | ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception . |
7 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
8 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
9 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
10 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
11 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
12 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
13 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
14 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
15 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
16 | I 've been recording for this |
17 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
18 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
19 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
20 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
21 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
22 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
23 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
24 | You , you 've been hacking at this one bit , it 's gone too soft , look that 's why , yes , gone too soft |
25 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
26 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
27 | By investing some time and trouble in learning to capture and interpret your own dreams , you may well gain insight into those aspects of your life that we 've been discussing throughout this chapter — some of your needs as living , loving , sexual being , surviving , as we all must , in complex relationships with other people . |
28 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
29 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
30 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |