Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been looking for you two . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 4 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it all the way back from your cottage and I believe I 've got just a tiny little bit of an idea . ’ |
| 6 | Peacock said : ‘ I 've been thinking about our commanding officer . |
| 7 | I 've been sifting through my daily routine and I 've turned up quite a handsome collection of finely-wrought deceits cultivated over the years . |
| 8 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 9 | These bodies My Lords are after all precepting authorities and I think it crucial that those who 've been elected by their local communities should be in a clear majority and I sympathise very much with the er proposition in this regard , set out in the Noble Lord , Lord 's Amendment number twenty-one . |
| 10 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been crawling through my barbed wire ! ’ |
| 12 | I 've been waiting for him all my life . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you all this time , Jane , ’ he said . |
| 14 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 15 | I 've been playing with my best teddies . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been banned from my local club . |