Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 2 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 4 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been thinking today of the time I took Piers and Antoinette to meet him . |
| 6 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We 've been ploughing all over the grass ! |
| 10 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 11 | Er , you 've been fiddling about at the back where it breaks yeah , did you tell Ken ? |
| 12 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 13 | You bolt on the tail and wings you 've been towing behind on a trailer , flip a couple of switches on the dashboard , and then find a strip of flat land to take off from . |
| 14 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 15 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 16 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 17 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 18 | ‘ But I 've been travelling hopefully in the meanwhile , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've got my first catalogue and two books ready . ’ |
| 19 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 20 | Or some of the time I 've been sitting there in the bed feeding the baby , you know |
| 21 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 22 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 23 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been going out with the same person for five years , ’ he reveals . |
| 25 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 26 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 27 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 28 | And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics . |
| 29 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 30 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |