Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 2 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 3 | Now it 's all because somebody has been messing about with . |
| 4 | He has been traipsing about , explaining to staff the joys of privatisation which await them . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not interested in all the tittle-tattle that has been flying about . ’ |
| 6 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 7 | He had the look of a man who 'd been pacing about restlessly , his tie loose about his throat , his shirt collar undone . |
| 8 | But if you 'd been playing about with your sister 's husband you might feel inhibited . |
| 9 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 10 | Everyone said I looked worn out and must have been gadding about too much ! |
| 11 | In the bathroom , Donna had segued clumsily from ‘ I could have danced all night ’ to ‘ I 'm getting married in the morning ’ , her attempts at a Cockney accent so ludicrous that normally Alex would have been falling about . |
| 12 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 13 | The one she had n't seen for twelve years , had been ranting about , who never raised a finger to help and left it all to Nancy ? |
| 14 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 15 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 16 | There had been too much ‘ talk and show ’ early on and he had been wriggling about , scraping his chair back and causing Mrs Singh to reprimand him constantly . |
| 17 | Minutes earlier Bethan had been splashing about when single parent Andrea , 22 , left the bathroom to take care of the other girl , Rhiannon . |
| 18 | He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons . |
| 19 | While Horsley had been cavorting about at Oxford , he had been on the first rung of an entirely different social ladder , as a solicitor 's clerk . |
| 20 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 21 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 22 | Then there 's new positions I 've been reading about , yaar . |
| 23 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 24 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 25 | Er , you 've been fiddling about at the back where it breaks yeah , did you tell Ken ? |
| 26 | I 'm going to leave you with four grooves that include some of the triplet applications we 've been taking about . |
| 27 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 29 | and er I thought er , I 've been playing about with the old ear for a song for a long time , but I ai n't worked the cords out |
| 30 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |