Example sentences of "been [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 31 | I hope your new proposals will work towards better rail-cycle facilities , as we have been having a lot of problems with Scotrail about the carriage of bikes . |
| 32 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 33 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . |
| 35 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 36 | It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 37 | The UK , Cambridge-based Olivetti Research Laboratory , ORL , funded jointly by Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and DEC , has been doing a lot of work on the so-called ‘ active badge ’ technology — infra-red location devices linked to computer and telephone systems . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 40 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
| 41 | So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy , |
| 42 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
| 44 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
| 45 | Well you , you 've been doing a lot just recently , the last few days |
| 46 | I been spending a lot of time with her these days . |
| 47 | ‘ He 's been spending a lot of time round here . |
| 48 | Possibly at the church house , where , as you know , he 's been spending a lot of time recently . ’ |
| 49 | They have been spending a lot of money on training , but what they 're doing now is localizing it , so training for Oxfordshire , which is different from training for somewhere like Liverpool , it 's got a lot more unemployed , it 's now not in the hands of the old training agency or manpower service commission , and we are looking at it completely afresh . |
| 50 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 51 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 52 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
| 53 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 54 | We have been taking a lot of coal out these last few days , everyone has been putting the hours in . |
| 55 | Anyway , to the issue of the C65 which I have been hearing a lot about recently , but still do n't know exactly what it does . |
| 56 | LATELY , we have been hearing a lot about date rape . |
| 57 | ‘ No , I have n't , but I 've been hearing a lot about it , and I 've read books , of course . ’ |
| 58 | She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion . |
| 59 | He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries . |
| 60 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |