Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [v-ing] [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been moaning on about Perdita all evening , but at least she 's alive , whereas Will … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been asking around about Werner , who interviewed you about the accident . |
| 3 | That 's not what I 've heard and I 've been asking around about you . |
| 4 | That way it will look as if you 've been asking around about me . ’ |
| 5 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 6 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |