Example sentences of "and [pron] 've [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've been nagging my parents . |
| 2 | And I 've been bleeding her white ever since . |
| 3 | I was worried sick when I saw it , and I 've been ringing your number on and off for the past hour . |
| 4 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 5 | Very exciting stuff and I 've been telling her not to speak so loudly . |
| 6 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 7 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 8 | She thinks she 'll be away for a week and I 've been wondering who I could get to look after the house . " |
| 9 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 10 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw you — turn on to the road — from the station — and I 've been following you all this way ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You made it sound important , and I 've been racking my brains ever since . ’ |
| 13 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 14 | He told the crowd : ‘ It seems like I 've been playing here forever — and you 've been watching me forever . |
| 15 | ‘ And you 've been supplying them ever since ? ’ |
| 16 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 17 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |
| 18 | And you 've been blaming me ! |
| 19 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 20 | " Three men attacked Joe — and we 've been racking our brains trying to figure out a motive . |
| 21 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 23 | So we have established a measure which we call OTIF — on time , in full — and we 've been measuring our performance in this area for the past two years . |
| 24 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 25 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 26 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 27 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 28 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 29 | Byron was my hero and they 've been slogging it out ever since . |