Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] 've [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | And I 've been looking after you since then . |
2 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
3 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
4 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
5 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
6 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
7 | And I 've been wanting to ask if they got a record o' that at Pulham St Mary . |
8 | It was a bitter summary of their unhappy affair , but compunction ensued , because it was n't Luke 's fault that he could n't love her , even if he had no right to despise her , so she added neutrally , ‘ There 's a Chinese tea-house or tea-garden — I 'm not sure what it 's really called — not far from here that intrigues me , and I 've been wanting to go and find out what it 's all about ever since I first passed it . |
9 | So I bought myself a bike , and I 've been popping backwards and forwards to my like |
10 | Damned if I could make out quite what 's going on and I 've been trying hard enough . ’ |
11 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
12 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
13 | And I 've been nagging my parents . |
14 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
15 | It 's just all sore and I 've been taking a pain here this week . |
16 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
17 | Yeah , 'cos Tizer 's the only one they have n't been doing diet , and I 've been getting really pissed off . |
18 | And I 've been getting all the |
19 | And I 've been bleeding her white ever since . |
20 | Well it gives a schedule of housing conditions in Greater York erm and I 've been comparing in in turn that schedule with the schedule produced by the City Council on a more updated basis . |
21 | I was worried sick when I saw it , and I 've been ringing your number on and off for the past hour . |
22 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
23 | I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’ |
24 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
25 | 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 . ’ |
26 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
27 | And I 've been mowing the lawn . |
28 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
29 | Very exciting stuff and I 've been telling her not to speak so loudly . |
30 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |