Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 | ‘ Oh , yer do n't mean you 'ave been doin' that , do yer ? ’ |
| 3 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 5 | I 've been ask all their sexual attitudes |
| 6 | I suppose you 've been watching that as well . |
| 7 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 8 | Ca n't believe you 've been watching all this television . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " I expect you 've been watching those " Bleakland " programmes , have n't you , Grandmother ? " |
| 11 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 13 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 14 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 15 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 17 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 18 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 19 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 20 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's probably sour grapes after they 've been beaten 4-2 by nine men . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been administering first aid . ’ |
| 24 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 25 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 26 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
| 28 | How can I know what you 've been thinking all this time ? |
| 29 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 30 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |