Example sentences of "'ve be [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 33 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 34 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 35 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 36 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 37 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 38 | By investing some time and trouble in learning to capture and interpret your own dreams , you may well gain insight into those aspects of your life that we 've been discussing throughout this chapter — some of your needs as living , loving , sexual being , surviving , as we all must , in complex relationships with other people . |
| 39 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 40 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 41 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 42 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 43 | out of what we 've been doing with this . |
| 44 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 45 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 46 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 47 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 48 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 49 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
| 50 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
| 51 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 52 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 53 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 54 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 55 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 56 | ‘ I 've been working through all the Peter Carsons in the London directory . |
| 57 | I mean , we 've been working towards all this for years , you know ? |
| 58 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 59 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 60 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |