Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 2 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 3 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 4 | I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between . |
| 5 | And the question I had been holding down with my domestic frenzy , my sorting and tidying , my focus on Matter , burst through : would the decay have set in ? |
| 6 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 7 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 8 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 13 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 14 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 15 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 16 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 17 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 18 | come home from work she said I 've been looking round in Boots and that for you , she said er I 've decided , she said I was gon na get you a gift voucher . |
| 19 | I 've been looking out for you . " |
| 20 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been waiting around in Reception for about ten minutes . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah cos I 've been coming round at , cos you said I 'm in all day , you know sort of any time . |
| 23 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 24 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 25 | I should n't have done that , but the man I 've been going out with is missing . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been going out with the same person for five years , ’ he reveals . |
| 27 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
| 28 | I 've been going out with Will for nine months and five days ! |
| 29 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 30 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |