Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [v-ing] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 2 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 3 | You see , I had been doing something about my own future , too . |
| 4 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 5 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 6 | ‘ The niece , the one I 've been telling you about . |
| 7 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 8 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 9 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 10 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 11 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 12 | Now go and relax in your dressing-room for a little while — try a few of those deep-breathing exercises you 've been telling me about . |
| 13 | Or perhaps you 've been telling her about when her periods will be due . |
| 14 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 15 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 16 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |