Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 4 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 5 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 6 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 7 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 8 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 9 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 10 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 11 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 12 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 16 | ‘ The niece , the one I 've been telling you about . |
| 17 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 18 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 19 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 21 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 22 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 23 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 24 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 25 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 26 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 28 | ’ I think I 've been luring you into bad ways . ’ |
| 29 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been touching you with my eyes , ’ said Lucy . |