Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] [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 For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself .
25 I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat .
26 Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book .
27 I have always thought that we entered the ERM at a rate of exchange that was much too high , and I have been reinforced in this view by Britain 's poor showing in international trade during the past 18 months .
28 I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges .
29 I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends .
30 The moral common to these stories is one I have been emphasising throughout this discussion .
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