Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 19 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | You 've been working on it , Ingrid , yes , with your teacher ? ’ |
| 22 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | They 've been waiting for it . |
| 27 | I 've been waiting for it coming through you know . |
| 28 | ‘ Man , I 've been longing for it … |