Example sentences of "'ve [be] [v-ing] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 2 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 3 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 4 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 5 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 6 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 7 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 8 | You 've been reading this place up . ’ |
| 9 | Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings . |
| 10 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 11 | ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ? |
| 12 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 13 | We 've been gardening this morning . |
| 14 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 15 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 16 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 18 | Tell your daddy what you 've been doing this afternoon . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 20 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 21 | Well how you 've been doing this week ? |
| 22 | Yeah but we 've done some Your saying we 've got ta do something about Christmas that 's all I 've been doing this week ! |
| 23 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working this way for 18 months now and I 'm really happy with how it 's going . |
| 26 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
| 27 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 28 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 29 | I mean , obviously we 've been playing this game for hours . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been hosting this party tonight . |