Example sentences of "be [pron] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been I 've been intending to ask you actually about the about the women workers . |
| 2 | Well actually what I 've been I 've been taking two before I go to bed at night . |
| 3 | Yes there is I 've been , yeah I 've been I 've been buying shares er Excon shares in a share p er a share purchase |
| 4 | well there you are she 's been going |
| 5 | Yeah the main difficulty is in is in the time period because it 's it 's quite likely that I mean I 'd we 'd been we 'd been hoping that the target candidate could put in a reasonable amount of personal commitment to the campaign . |
| 6 | Well I suppose i it means that you know the difference between right and wrong cos we 've only been We 've been talking about it further up have n't we ? |
| 7 | As we said earlier on , he had been they had been travelling through and Jesus had se settled down there for a while and sent his disciples into a , th a nearby town across the frontier , er to get some food and some provisions , er to last them for the remainder of their journey and Jesus is just sitting there by this well , he 's tired , he 's thirsty , weary and hungry , just waiting there and then this lady comes to draw water from the well . |
| 8 | ‘ If he 'd been he 'd been wearing one , he might have had an open casket . ’ |
| 9 | At the same time , Peachcake , if worries about the future are what 's been keeping him from showing his feelings for you and he 's as much in love with you as you appear to be with him , there 's to be no hasty wedding . |
| 10 | At last , incredibly , I 'm going to find out what it is I 've been missing … wanting ! |
| 11 | Erm the simple reason is I 've been signing on , erm they 've suspended my unemployment . |
| 12 | North British duly obliged with the Birmingham-Glasgow on the Saturday , but dawn till dusk vigils did not produce the procession of A1 's , A2 's , A3 's and A4 's I had been hoping to see . |
| 13 | Usually what 's happened is somebody 's been doing the cooking , dropped the pot on the floor , and all the pieces have been thrown away . |
| 14 | Is that who 's she 's been seeing ? |
| 15 | It 's not people only make this job difficult I believe erm if they do n't listen to the people who 's who have been doing these things for twenty years . |
| 16 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 17 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 18 | He said I bet it 's that that 's been , oh and then it jumped down and ran corner at g where ch caravan is , he said I bet that 's what 's been eating your bloody daffodil bulbs and that . |
| 19 | well what 's the point of the lake ? , that 's what 's been worrying me , I was going to ask Mr what is the punter supposed to see ? |
| 20 | That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’ |
| 21 | So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy . |
| 22 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 23 | Harriet Harman , shadow Treasury chief secretary , said : ‘ The last thing the country needs at the moment is a dogfight in the Cabinet and that is what has been going on . ’ |
| 24 | To some extent this is what has been happening in Britain in the 1980s . |
| 25 | This , I suggest , is what has been happening up to now . ’ |
| 26 | This , I am sorry to say , is what has been happening recently . |
| 27 | so this is what 's been holding everything up . |
| 28 | Ya I was I 've been thinking of trying to have a big delivery of something . |
| 29 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 30 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |