Example sentences of "'ve [be] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 2 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
| 3 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 6 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 7 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 8 | We 've been inundated with calls from listeners wanting to know where you were . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been feeding on waste from the labs . |
| 10 | A family who 've been saved from eviction by an anonymous donor say it 's the best Christmas present they could have hoped for . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been thinking about Sam in the same way as Maurice and Beatrix recently . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been pestered by reporters for days , and it really is getting on my nerves . ’ |
| 13 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been hooked on crisps for years . |
| 15 | There 's an in er a strong tendency to call the the testimony of people who 've been abused into question in this way . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been deluged with stories about the American nuclear industry over the past few years . |
| 17 | I 've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day . |
| 18 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 19 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 20 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 21 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been going to meetings for a while now ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ When we have our celebration , it reminds me of Lourdes , and I 've been going to Lourdes since 1961 . |
| 25 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 26 | When you 're dealing with people who may want to buy retirement homes , er how do you describe them ? , they 've been described by Mr as the punters you see , how 'd you , what do you call them ? |
| 27 | YOU 'VE been tuning into Lipstick on Your Collar , collecting the K-Tel classics of the Fifties and Sixties , and loved the musical Buddy . |
| 28 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 29 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 30 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |