Example sentences of "i 've been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen hastened towards them , her face contorted with anger as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — I 've been searching everywhere for you . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 4 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 5 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 6 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been thinking today of the time I took Piers and Antoinette to meet him . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been thinking objectively for once . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 13 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 15 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 16 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 17 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 18 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you too , ’ she answered , which was true . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 21 | I 've been looking forward to seeing you so much . |
| 22 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you know all the way here I 've been looking forward to your particular brand of polite conversation ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to seeing you , ’ he said , coming up close so I could smell him . |
| 25 | ‘ Dr Blake — Lindsey — I 've been looking forward to meeting you . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you , ’ she smiled . |
| 27 | come home from work she said I 've been looking round in Boots and that for you , she said er I 've decided , she said I was gon na get you a gift voucher . |
| 28 | I 've been looking out for you . " |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been looking everywhere for you . |