Example sentences of "'ve [be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
2 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
3 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
4 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
5 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
6 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
7 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
8 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
9 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
10 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
11 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
12 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
13 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
14 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
15 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |