Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 2 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 3 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 4 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 5 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 6 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 8 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 9 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 10 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 12 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 13 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 14 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 15 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 16 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 17 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 18 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 19 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 20 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 21 | Okay , have you come across anything else that you 've I suppose you have n't had , you have n't been coming across much at all . |
| 22 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 23 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 25 | Gardeners have been arguing about this for years , so I hope we can clear the matter up now once and for all . |
| 26 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 27 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 28 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 29 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 30 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |