Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception . |
2 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
5 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
6 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
7 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
8 | ‘ Listen , kiddo , I 've been thinking about this . |
9 | I 've been thinking about this , sir — well , I 've had nothing else to think about . |
10 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
11 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
12 | I 've been thinking about this , too . |
13 | You , you 've been hacking at this one bit , it 's gone too soft , look that 's why , yes , gone too soft |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
18 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
19 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
20 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
21 | out of what we 've been doing with this . |
22 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
25 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
26 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
29 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
30 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |