Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been thinking the same thing . |
| 2 | We can work using the x-form faster than we can the sequence form simply because we 've been using the former for years . |
| 3 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 4 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 6 | yes , yes , she 'll just have an or orange when I came out , she 's been , I 've been getting a few of those , it seems to help a bit |
| 7 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 8 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 9 | , so we 've been doing a few need a good wash |
| 10 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |
| 11 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 12 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 13 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 14 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 15 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 16 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 17 | Most of the bigger hotels in Kos have been built a little way out of the old town and the Bohem is about 15 minutes from the far side of Heaven ( the disco ) ! |
| 18 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 19 | But it seems unlikely that it is often so , and it would be a mistake to extrapolate to other cases of mental illness which have been given the same diagnostic labels . |
| 20 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 21 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 22 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Er this is quite commonly accepted as er in use in many places and I think my our colleagues on the other side of the table have been using the same basic modelling methodology . |
| 24 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 25 | Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye . |
| 26 | ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’ |
| 27 | Corden added : ‘ Tuesday 's result was very disappointing but we have been carrying a few injuries . |
| 28 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 29 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 30 | All the horses will use the race course stables , and all riders have been guaranteed the same training conditions . |