Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |
| 5 | I 've been filling it in in pencil . |
| 6 | Now go and relax in your dressing-room for a little while — try a few of those deep-breathing exercises you 've been telling me about . |
| 7 | Or perhaps you 've been telling her about when her periods will be due . |
| 8 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 9 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 10 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 11 | And then one day , they 've been telling you for years , You ca n't do that . |
| 12 | ‘ The niece , the one I 've been telling you about . |
| 13 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 14 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 17 | And he was saying he said oh you 've been good you 've been feeding us with cups of teas . |
| 18 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 19 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 20 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 21 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 22 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 23 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been touching you with my eyes , ’ said Lucy . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 26 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 27 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 28 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 29 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 30 | ’ I think I 've been luring you into bad ways . ’ |