Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it all the way back from your cottage and I believe I 've got just a tiny little bit of an idea . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been thinking about it , and nothing better suggests itself . |
| 4 | I 've been thinking about it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it . |
| 6 | " But I 've been thinking about it , Nenna , and praying . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it , ’ said Derek . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd guessed Donna had a twin sister — somewhere — and I — oh , I know this sounds silly , but I 've been thinking about it , ever since the transplant was mentioned , before Juliet made me realise who she ws . |
| 10 | yes well I 've been thinking about it , what you want is a |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 12 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 13 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 14 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 15 | yeah and it 's a public relations exercise , and we 've been lumbered with it you know over the years we 've tried to push crime prevention and people come in and they do take notes of various things you know there 's obviously some people who come in and talk about crime prevention which we can answer fully , there are other enquiries about everything from bloody |
| 16 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 17 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 18 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |
| 19 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 20 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 21 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 22 | I knew those had been painted over ten years before , I said to him , ‘ Is this an old painting or a new painting ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , I 've been working on it . ’ |
| 23 | You 've been working on it , Ingrid , yes , with your teacher ? ’ |
| 24 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 25 | Well I suppose i it means that you know the difference between right and wrong cos we 've only been We 've been talking about it further up have n't we ? |
| 26 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 27 | You know what I think er , th we 've been talking about it round about and I says , you know , they were wondering if it was a bit suspic , I said no , th , they worry to death , there 's our children who speaking like the nig-nogs ! |
| 28 | No , I 've been told about it . |
| 29 | They 've been waiting for it . |
| 30 | I 've been waiting for it coming through you know . |