Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] this " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 To compliment and complete the Scandinavian experience we ‘ ve been having this winter , The Whitworth Art Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum have collaborated to organise the first exhibition here of Norway 's most outstanding landscape painters , Johan christian Dahl ( 1788–1857 ) and Thomas Fearnley ( 1802–42 ) .
2 And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence .
3 I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down .
4 I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ?
5 We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’
6 ‘ I 've been using this , but conserving the batteries as much as possible as they 're very low .
7 Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one .
8 with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff .
9 But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock .
10 Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer
11 As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind .
12 You 've been reading this place up . ’
13 Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings .
14 All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it .
15 ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ?
16 Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things
17 We 've been mentioning this good housekeeping
18 We 've been gardening this morning .
19 I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back .
20 They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible .
21 ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ .
22 ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ .
23 ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it .
24 After all , they 've been doing this longer than you have .
25 ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that .
26 ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’
27 I 've been doing this for around six years now .
28 ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue .
29 For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain .
30 That 's right , I 've , I 've been through over the year 's I 've been doing this and they say , whether it 's because they know if the background at the er vets , the private vets there , you know I do n't know , but the information I get from them , that there 'd a , there not prepared to over .
  Next page