Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 2 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 3 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 4 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 5 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 7 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 8 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 9 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 10 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 11 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 12 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 13 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 14 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 15 | I 've been treating it as a wart . |
| 16 | so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe |
| 17 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 21 | When will the Department publish the review of the social fund , which we have long awaited , and when will he restore the right of the poorest in our society to a grant for essential items such as clothing , furniture and cookers , which have been denied them under the current system ? |
| 22 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 23 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 24 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |
| 25 | Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation . |
| 26 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |