Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
| 2 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 3 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 4 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 5 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 7 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 8 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 9 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 10 | What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing , under his occasionally expressionless face ? |
| 11 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 12 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 13 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 14 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 16 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 17 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 18 | Mr Flood had been staring into that tree a lot lately , and worse still having conversations with someone he saw in its branches . |
| 19 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 20 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 22 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 23 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
| 24 | No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must |
| 25 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 27 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 30 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |