Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception . |
| 3 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 4 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 5 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 6 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 7 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 10 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 11 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 12 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 13 | By investing some time and trouble in learning to capture and interpret your own dreams , you may well gain insight into those aspects of your life that we 've been discussing throughout this chapter — some of your needs as living , loving , sexual being , surviving , as we all must , in complex relationships with other people . |
| 14 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 15 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 16 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 17 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 19 | Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’ |
| 20 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 21 | All I 've been introduced to that bloke as Sally 's friend ! |
| 22 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 23 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 24 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 26 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 27 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 28 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
| 29 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |
| 30 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |