Example sentences of "'ve [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year .
2 ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception .
3 No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life .
4 I 've been looking for that all week !
5 Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ?
6 We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation .
7 Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm
8 In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel .
9 they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations .
10 Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well .
11 Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play .
12 " I 've been looking at these holes .
13 I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched .
14 ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters .
15 I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’
16 ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’
17 ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’
18 " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! "
19 Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) .
20 And I 've been living for seven years !
21 She thought : I 've been living like this for years .
22 — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan .
23 For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian .
24 They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade .
25 ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’
26 Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates .
27 We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field .
28 Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’
29 No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must
30 What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ?
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