Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 2 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 3 | She says that she she lives in a on the estate on the outskirts of Mansfield have you been checking around that area ? |
| 4 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 5 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 6 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 7 | He 's been looking at that erm inspiration has n't , do you know I bet it would if he made a cup of tea why was n't |
| 8 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 9 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 10 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 11 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 12 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been wondering about that , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I 've been wondering about that myself . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been wondering about that , ’ Cranston replied . |
| 16 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 17 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 19 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 20 | I 've been brooding about that myself ever since I heard . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you been brooding over that . |
| 22 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 23 | It 's a long time it 's been going since that sort of thing . |
| 24 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
| 25 | the thing , I mean everybody 's been complaining about that but considering all that he has n't done bad has he ? |
| 26 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 27 | cos er I mean , I mean , I says I did n't want but I , I would n't of been back but I would of been getting off that bus now |
| 28 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 29 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 30 | Mr Flood had been staring into that tree a lot lately , and worse still having conversations with someone he saw in its branches . |