Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 4 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 5 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been expecting something like that to happen , ’ she said . |
| 7 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 8 | ’ I think I 've been luring you into bad ways . ’ |
| 9 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 10 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 11 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 13 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 14 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been chasing you for eight miles . |
| 16 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 17 | And the question I 've been asking myself of this , is that erm , where did we start from . |
| 18 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 19 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 20 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 21 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 22 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 23 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 24 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 27 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 28 | I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years ! |
| 29 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've been told one in 10 couples is infertile but they ca n't be in your street , can they ? |