Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
| 32 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
| 36 | 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 |
| 37 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
| 38 | ‘ We 've been planning a family for a while but I would n't be surprised if the baby 's born and we have n't decided on a name , ’ she says . |
| 39 | We 've been driving a car like this for years . |
| 40 | Recently I 've been working a lot under Muti , who is marvellous , particularly in Verdi and Mozart . |
| 41 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 42 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 43 | I 've been keeping a watch in case we had visitors . ’ |
| 44 | Because I 've been keeping a record of everything that 's been happening for you , you know , so you wo n't have missed anything . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 46 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 47 | ‘ I 've been left a house in France , end of subject , except that it is my intention — ’ |
| 48 | We 've been following a group through in Glasgow who 've been H , on H R T now for twenty three years ! |
| 49 | I 've been having a look at a twenty-bed hotel up near Windermere . |
| 50 | " I 've been having a look at the entire , " Bunny said . |
| 51 | In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code . |
| 52 | Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er |
| 53 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 54 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 55 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 56 | I 've been offered a lot of commissions but I have n't done any for two years . |
| 57 | I 've been offered a job in general practice . |
| 58 | If yer really want ter know I 've been courtin' a widow for some time an' we 're thinkin' of settlin' down tergether , ’ he replied . |
| 59 | I 've been consulting a re-issue in paperback of John Gross ' excellent Oxford Book of Aphorisms and scrutinised some modern examples in ‘ Quote Unquote ’ , the sample of sayings of the week published each Saturday in the Independent . |
| 60 | I 've been investigating a series of murders in London . |