Example sentences of "been [verb] this [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 2 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 5 | Ms Harris ought to have been preaching this to her clients and taking note of it herself . |
| 6 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 7 | But the man at the front had n't been told this of course , naturally enough and he could n't see that so suddenly with a jolt the wardrobe left him , two steps ' worth instead of one at a time . |
| 8 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 9 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
| 10 | Human skeletons and a cannon-ball weighing twelve pounds have been unearthed in the garden , and the names ‘ Battle Well ’ and ‘ Battle Cottages ’ , both found close by , are unlikely to have been called this without good reason . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 12 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 15 | I have been doing this for over ten years . |
| 16 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 17 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |
| 18 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 19 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 20 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 23 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 24 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 28 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 29 | How long had I been doing this without a break ? |
| 30 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |