Example sentences of "[verb] i have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 2 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 3 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 4 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 5 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 6 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 7 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 8 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 9 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope you do n't feel I 've been spying on you . ’ |
| 11 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 12 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 13 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 14 | Ever since I can remember I have been going on demonstrations . |
| 15 | I must go now , or my brother will guess I have been speaking to you . |
| 16 | ‘ I just wanted to you know I 've been thinking of you . ’ |
| 17 | I know I 've been behaving like a pig , comme un porco , for a bit , but please read all my letters from the Jungle and you 'll see I 'm a changed man . |
| 18 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 19 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 20 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 21 | As all the world knows I 'm now 61 so it follows I 've been playing for yonks , interrupted only by a broken leg and two children . |
| 22 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 23 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
| 24 | Ooh I ca n't stop yawning I 've been going into work a bit earlier lately |
| 25 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 26 | Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week . |
| 27 | Erm , oh I have got something else , which is music , erm , at the last meeting I said I 've been talking to Simon from the Queen 's Hall , about the idea of doing pre-concert notes |
| 28 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 29 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 30 | Now I can say I 've been mixing with both the noble and the notorious . |