Example sentences of "[conj] you have been [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 2 | Which is the story that you 've been hearing about ? |
| 3 | Is it true the things that you 've been declaring about yourself ? |
| 4 | do you think that maybe they could benefit from this idea that you 've been talking about today ? |
| 5 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 6 | ‘ So you have been thinking about them . |
| 7 | If you 've been thinking about taking out a subscription to the Royal Horticultural Society , now 's the time to do it . |
| 8 | If you 've been thinking about a career in hairdressing and need some professional advice without parting with any cash , the new video from Hair by Alan d may be just the answer . |
| 9 | If you 've been gossiping about someone , go to those you gossiped to and try to restore the person 's reputation . |
| 10 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |