Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] been [v-ing] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been watering them ! |
| 3 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 4 | I never noticed , I 've been eating them . |
| 5 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 6 | It is really , well I 've been hanging them out because it 's , that 's such an effort , you know what the cleaner s |
| 7 | I 've been counting them since . |
| 8 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 9 | Well I 've been taking them yeah , |
| 10 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 12 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 13 | I 've been watching them multiply all morning . |
| 14 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 15 | No , I 've been logging them as I 've been going . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 17 | You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me . |
| 18 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 19 | If they do , then I 've been running them very inefficiently and incompetently . |
| 20 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |
| 21 | so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe |
| 22 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 23 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 24 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 25 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 26 | As the newer varieties of catfish have appeared in my local aquatic outlet , I have been purchasing them . |
| 27 | The items I have found on such sites have proved to be of great interest , and I have been logging them down very carefully . |
| 28 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 29 | Have Walsall always played in the same colours as long as you 've been supporting them ? |
| 30 | I said , Oh do n't bother I always I always get people ringing up saying so and so 's mother or father says or someone says you 've been teaching them and can you take me or can you take my son or daughter and it always works like that . |