Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] about it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine Everett has been hearing about it . |
| 2 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 3 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 4 | ‘ No , he 'd been talking about it . |
| 5 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 6 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 7 | Cabochon , however , had been thinking about it deeply . |
| 8 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 9 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 10 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 11 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it all the way back from your cottage and I believe I 've got just a tiny little bit of an idea . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been thinking about it , and nothing better suggests itself . |
| 14 | I 've been thinking about it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it . |
| 16 | " But I 've been thinking about it , Nenna , and praying . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it , ’ said Derek . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd guessed Donna had a twin sister — somewhere — and I — oh , I know this sounds silly , but I 've been thinking about it , ever since the transplant was mentioned , before Juliet made me realise who she ws . |
| 20 | yes well I 've been thinking about it , what you want is a |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 24 | You know what I think er , th we 've been talking about it round about and I says , you know , they were wondering if it was a bit suspic , I said no , th , they worry to death , there 's our children who speaking like the nig-nogs ! |
| 25 | Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been wondering about it ever since I first heard . |
| 27 | She 's been talking about it for ye the past year . |