Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 2 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 3 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 4 | Now obviously that requires a more precise working knowledge of newspapers and the other media , what they want , when and how they need it , what the sort of particular publication is , you 've been discussing some of that and we can perhaps go into some of that in , in a bit more detail a bit later on . |
| 5 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 6 | As I mentioned , you 've been getting some advocacy experience , although you might not have realized it , in litigation already . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 8 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 9 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
| 12 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 13 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 14 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |
| 16 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 17 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 18 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been giving some thought to the content of the next magazine with which I hope you can help . |
| 20 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 21 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of Rural Wales/ Cymru Wledig , and to the contribution you could make . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been giving some thought to our — problem , ’ he stated . |
| 23 | I 've been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one 's hit the nail on the head . |
| 24 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 25 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |
| 26 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 27 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 28 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 29 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 30 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |