Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't believe you 've been watching all this television . |
| 2 | How can I know what you 've been thinking all this time ? |
| 3 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 4 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 7 | We 've been mentioning this good housekeeping |
| 8 | We erm we 've been discussing all last week the amount of housing that has to be accommodated in Harrogate District and in North Yorkshire as as a whole . |
| 9 | I 've been seeing these funny yellow ones ! |
| 10 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 12 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 13 | I 've been doing all this that looks nice yes ? |
| 14 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 17 | So long as you wait , I think you 've been doing this all day . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 21 | You 've been doing those alright have n't you . |
| 22 | I 've been going half crazy with worry wondering what on earth had happened to you . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been practising this mega dance routine . |
| 24 | ‘ So you 've been paying this other man for three months . |
| 25 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 28 | Like me , you 've been waiting all these years , whether you knew it or not . ’ |
| 29 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |
| 30 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |