Example sentences of "'ve [been] [v-ing] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 2 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been dealing in magic , ’ Bloxham hollered . |
| 5 | But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you . |
| 6 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 7 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 8 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 9 | Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've been arriving in scores , each delegation with one appointed English speaker ’ said an official . |
| 11 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 12 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |
| 13 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 15 | I 'm a geologist — that bit was true — and until recently I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 16 | I 've been working in Cleveland , US for 4 months now , and am amazed that I get more up to date information on the week 's activities than when I lived outside London ! |
| 17 | I 've been backpacking in Europe , I love it there . |
| 18 | The staff say you always look as if you 've been sleeping in haystacks these days . |
| 19 | If learners can see and recognise the language they 've been studying in use in realistic situations this has two benefits : |
| 20 | A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ . |
| 21 | I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east ! |