Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 2 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 5 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 6 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 7 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 8 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 9 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 10 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 11 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 12 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 13 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 14 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 15 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 16 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 17 | What d' ya think if someone says they want a few words with you what d' ya think 's going to happen ? |
| 18 | ‘ I expect she 's been sitting too long in the sun , ’ she said . |
| 19 | " I expect you 've been watching those " Bleakland " programmes , have n't you , Grandmother ? " |
| 20 | ‘ Who d' you think 's going to pay for it ? ’ |
| 21 | What d' you think 's going to happen ? |
| 22 | And what I suggest we do is seeing Georgina 's here we send you through to see Georgina and she can , if she 's got time , we can briefly run through one or two types . |
| 23 | The papers say there has been shooting in the centre of Tripoli far to the north . |
| 24 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 25 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 26 | Three tenants in the house say they 'd been paying £120 a week rent to their landlord , a Mr Vincent Cox . |
| 27 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 28 | Friends say they had been looking forward to the holiday for months . |
| 29 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 30 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |