Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [det] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 2 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 3 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 4 | No , she 's been getting enough of that . |
| 5 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |
| 6 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 7 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 8 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 9 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 10 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 11 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 12 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 13 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 14 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 15 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 16 | Anyway , what have you been doing these past two days ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd very much like to know , ’ he said , ‘ what Masklin has been doing these past few weeks … ’ |
| 18 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 19 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 20 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 21 | Er and you have n't been taking any of those Diazepam at all ? |
| 22 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 23 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 24 | While the employment rates of lone mothers have been falling those of married mothers have been rising . |
| 25 | Now obviously that requires a more precise working knowledge of newspapers and the other media , what they want , when and how they need it , what the sort of particular publication is , you 've been discussing some of that and we can perhaps go into some of that in , in a bit more detail a bit later on . |
| 26 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |