Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 2 | I 've been reading a copy of the above document and I must say I am very disturbed by its proposals , and disappointed at the negative attitude it conveys . |
| 3 | But recently I 've been thinking a lot about a person I see once a week at a club . |
| 4 | ‘ Miranda , I 've been thinking a lot about you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been thinking a lot about it , ’ she said , moving the salt cellar in a pattern on the tablecloth , ‘ and I think — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been getting a lot of flak about fighting in Spain and I did n't want Anne to get any . |
| 7 | ‘ Lately I 've been getting a hankering to play country music again , so I 've got together with a friend and put together a fun band called Modern Farmer . |
| 8 | I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been using a leave-in conditioner on my hair and am very pleased with the results . |
| 10 | I 've been using a Strat on and off for about five years , and we also hired in Telecasters , Rickenbacker 12-strings , all kinds of stuff . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |
| 12 | It 's just all sore and I 've been taking a pain here this week . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been wanting a bike for ages , only Daddy has n't been able to manage it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been wanting a chat with Arthur , ’ he had said gleefully . |
| 15 | yes , I got a bit tired out because erm somebody mentioned table tennis and I said oh I 've been wanting a game for years ! |
| 16 | I 've been writing a book . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been writing a book . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No , I have n't , but I 've been hearing a lot about it , and I 've read books , of course . ’ |
| 19 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 20 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
| 21 | Recently I 've been working a lot under Muti , who is marvellous , particularly in Verdi and Mozart . |
| 22 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been driving a lot . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been consulting a re-issue in paperback of John Gross ' excellent Oxford Book of Aphorisms and scrutinised some modern examples in ‘ Quote Unquote ’ , the sample of sayings of the week published each Saturday in the Independent . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
| 26 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
| 27 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 28 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
| 29 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |