Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 2 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
| 3 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 4 | ‘ My friend Bernice and I have been trying to work out how to stabilize the moons , ’ he said . |
| 5 | For a number of years , my wife Ann and I have been fishing with a party of friends at Altnaharra . |
| 6 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 7 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 8 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 9 | I knew I 'd overdone the garlic in the Rogan Josh because I 'd been trying to impress Zaria . |
| 10 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I 've seen another side to David Markham since I 've been working with him . ’ |
| 12 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 13 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 14 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 15 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
| 16 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 17 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 18 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 19 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
| 20 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 21 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 22 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 23 | My pen that I 've been working . |
| 24 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 25 | A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it |
| 26 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 27 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 28 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 29 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 30 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |