Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 2 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 3 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 4 | The party 's best-known candidate , Alessandra Mussolini , the Duce 's grand-daughter , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm very happy for the MSI , even if I still do n't know if I 've been elected ’ . |
| 5 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 6 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 7 | HOW Will I know whether I have been regressed or whether it is simply my imagination working overtime ? |
| 8 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 9 | I 'll tell you what it is — it 's only bogland and I should know for I 've been lookin' at them fields for years . ’ |
| 10 | I realized that I had been tricked , so I then turned to some American and French correspondents . |
| 11 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 12 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 13 | With an instant return to sweet reasonableness , Andrée said , ‘ Admitted that I 've been trying to seduce you , does n't that only go to show how desperate I am to get my way ? |
| 14 | ‘ Even today I was n't presuming that I had been chosen . ’ |
| 15 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues . |
| 17 | He would assume that I had been detained scrubbing the floors of the kitchens at Grindlewood Park . |
| 18 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
| 19 | At least I could have moved if I had been standing . |
| 20 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 21 | I said er I I imagine cos I 've been visiting his wife you see . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not sure what good it can do but I 've been thinking over what you said about Barney Willard . |
| 23 | That 's not what I 've heard and I 've been asking around about you . |
| 24 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 25 | ‘ You know that I have been asked to give a course of sermons at St Basil 's ? |
| 26 | I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’ |
| 27 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 29 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |
| 30 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |