Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
| 2 | No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must |
| 3 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 4 | But I 've been thinking about next week . |
| 5 | ‘ Listen , kiddo , I 've been thinking about this . |
| 6 | I 've been thinking about this , sir — well , I 've had nothing else to think about . |
| 7 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 9 | I 've been thinking about this , too . |
| 10 | I 've been thinking about these requests for miracles . |
| 11 | I 've been thinking about these blinds for such a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 15 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 16 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 17 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 18 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 19 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
| 20 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been wondering about that , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I 've been wondering about that myself . |
| 24 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
| 25 | I 've been brooding about that myself ever since I heard . |