Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] this " 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 | 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 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 4 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 5 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 6 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been using this , but conserving the batteries as much as possible as they 're very low . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You 've been reading this place up . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been given this beautiful little picture as well , ’ I said , and I smiled up at him . |
| 17 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 18 | ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ? |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | We 've been mentioning this good housekeeping |
| 21 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 22 | We 've been gardening this morning . |
| 23 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 28 | After all , they 've been doing this longer than you have . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 30 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |