Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission has been collecting evidence about the torture and ‘ disappearance ’ of the military regime 's political opponents , from victims and their families and from the armed forces . |
| 2 | Whilst all the furore has been taking place about the quality , or otherwise , of desktop publishing many professional graphics , printing and publishing houses have been making up their own minds as to its usefulness . |
| 3 | CARN has been holding conferences about every 18 months since 1976 . |
| 4 | Ever since Courtney indecently assaulted her at his Harley Street clinic in October last year , the girl known to the jury as Miss C has been having nightmares about the attack . |
| 5 | Simon Sherwood has been breathing fire about Dragons Den for some time now and could not disguise his delight when the Furry Glen gelding burnt off Musthaveaswig by three lengths at Uttoxeter last month . |
| 6 | You could rarely get a straight answer from any of them , they 'd been dodging questions about his father for so long ; evasion was a way of life with them . |
| 7 | In the lead-up to the trip I had been telling Nat about the Northern Lights and how wonderful they were . |
| 8 | Andrew Walker was bound to have Veronica 's address and telephone number but a request for them , so soon after she had been asking questions about the woman 's husband , might well arouse his suspicions . |
| 9 | Obviously the police had been making enquiries about the Sally Nash case . |
| 10 | Luciano Bartocci had been shuffling papers about noisily on his desk in an attempt to disrupt this exchange from which he was excluded . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been writing songs about prison ever since I started writing songs . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been telling Veronica about the week we had in Scotland . |
| 13 | She said , and a lot of the time , she said , he 's a , he 's a little sod , she said , but you know , she said , I mean , it 's not all bad things about him , and I said , I 've been hearing things about you from Miss , and she oh , what she 's been bloody saying , I bet she 's been saying I 'm crap at English . |
| 14 | I 've been hearing rumours about his methods of taming his crew … things to make your hair stand on end . |
| 15 | Some people in this town have been saying things about me . |
| 16 | He 's been taking soundings about the possibility of shifting Mirror Group Newspapers , lock , stock and Joe Haines 's basket , south of the Thames to Great Dover Street while Maxwell House , his Holborn HQ , is flattened and rebuilt . |
| 17 | ‘ Wheeler certainly knew or suspected something about candles since he 's been questioning Williams about them , ’ said Ian , recalling his unsatisfactory conversation with the Verger . |