Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | What yo you do is using that bracket there |
| 32 | I suppose you 've been watching that as well . |
| 33 | " You 've been reading that hook , " Graham said . |
| 34 | I know you 've been investigating that horrible Martin man , even though you 've tried to keep it quiet , so here you are . ’ |
| 35 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
| 36 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 37 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 38 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 39 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 40 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 41 | She 's been saying that ? |
| 42 | she 's been contributing that 's one reason one , she 's , discovered other things , this morning somebody turned up apparently they took a loan out |
| 43 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 44 | Okay , so we 've been saying that , I mean clearly , I mean that , that 's good evidence to suggest that world trade in absolute terms in agricultural goods is , is increasing , but as a proportion of world trade erm , it 's er , we know , we know that , we know that it , it 's falling . |
| 45 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 46 | We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months . |
| 47 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
| 48 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 49 | Recently we have been learning that young animals , puppy dogs , even a giraffe , brought up exclusively by humans will be unable later on to identify themselves or establish emotional contact with their own species . |
| 50 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 51 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 52 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 53 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 54 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 55 | they 've been doing that anyway . |
| 56 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
| 57 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 58 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 59 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 60 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |