Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see how I 've been losing : all the while |
| 2 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 3 | Let's see how you 've been getting on . |
| 4 | Well how you 've been doing this week ? |
| 5 | After a few weeks the time log sheets are analysed for you by a specialist who duly reports back on how you have been spending your time . |
| 6 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
| 7 | Well I suppose ringing them up and telling them how they 've been going , how they 're galloping , how they do n't gallop . |
| 8 | It 's dark , cold and pouring with rain as I leave the office of E. and B. Productions where I 've been discussing the pantomime orchestra with Paul , the company musical director . |
| 9 | And it 's not earning us anything in there , but mind you erm it sometimes during the week where erm the tables are full of a load of papers and what have you where I 've been doing paper work and that |
| 10 | Maybe that 's where I 've been going wrong all this time . |
| 11 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 12 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why I 've been trying to get hold of you . ’ |
| 14 | Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals . |
| 15 | ‘ Angel , ’ she said , ‘ do you know why I 've been running after you ? |
| 16 | I 'm going to bed cos I 'm actually knackered and I do n't why I 've been sitting here talking |
| 17 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 18 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 19 | And I 've seen the look in your eyes recently when you 've been watching the singers on stage . |
| 20 | What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ? |
| 21 | That 's why when you 've been running hard you 've got the stitch or whatever , that 's caused a buildup of lactic acid in the er muscles , what you then do is your muscles say , Enough . |
| 22 | Obviously you know when you 've been sitting still this is probably the worse hour of the day . |
| 23 | up to this last week when you 've been doing |
| 24 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 25 | ‘ Since when you have been living with Mr and Mrs Fanshawe ? ’ |
| 26 | As your float approaches the section where you 've been getting most bites , you dress the line again , following the downstream progress of your float with the tip of your rod . |
| 27 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 28 | What kind of citizens charter is introduced on the back of denying you the right to even challenge the people who are providing the services , or could restrict the right of your family to be together , or the right for you to travel to the country where you 've been living ? |
| 29 | She said , ‘ So this is where you 've been working . ’ |
| 30 | But something like the choir or where you 've been working , I do n't know you , I , I 've got this thing which is |