Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been looking through the cuttings on the inquest again , and she was identified by an aunt who lived in Herefordshire . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 4 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 5 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 6 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 7 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 8 | I 've been looking at the knives again . |
| 9 | We 've been looking at the contrasting features of these two . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been looking at the basin where the sewage tank used to be . ’ |
| 11 | IN view of all the talk about a resumption of political talks , I 've been looking at the last word of the Ulster Unionists on the subject , delivered just before the plug was pulled last October . |
| 12 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 13 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 14 | It 's been a up , in fact , you 've been living off the people , in in in other words . |
| 15 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 16 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 17 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 18 | I 've been busking round the bars of Torremolinos in Spain , and at Tenerife , in the Canary Islands . |
| 19 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been glancing through the teams , Peter , ’ he said . |
| 21 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |
| 22 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ No , but then I 've been thinking about the amniocentesis . |
| 24 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 25 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 26 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 27 | Erm one of the problems that we 've been facing in the past , certainly , in G P House is the amount of stuff that 's on the floor and therefore we have n't actually been able to tackle these things very effectively . |
| 28 | ‘ You see , I 've been learning about the city . |
| 29 | Directly you go ashore have a bath , send everything you 've been wearing to the laundry , and wash your hair . |
| 30 | They 've been protesting against the council 's decision to stop the car park there from being women only . |