Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If Kenny Shields is n't allowed to buy players soon , instead of being expected to rely on free transfers etc , then it is going to be a very , very long season for all at Carrick when everyone has been looking forward to so much .
2 Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches .
3 What you say to me has been said only to me .
4 The deal may lead to others , although nothing has been signed yet in the UK or the US .
5 It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done .
6 I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience .
7 I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London .
8 I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’
9 Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age .
10 I 'd been getting away with it for ages .
11 I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes .
12 And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment .
13 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 .
14 I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out .
15 I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body .
16 I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too .
17 When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half .
18 It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them .
19 In Doncaster over Christmas , I had been thinking constantly about criticizing the Government .
20 I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’
21 To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely .
22 I had been looking forward to going to what I called ‘ big school ’ .
23 I am disappointed that none of those hon. Members is in his place , because I had been looking forward to their contributions and should have liked to address the odd remark to them , but I shall do that in any event .
24 As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing !
25 But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression .
26 I had been brought close to another sort of despair by my inability to draw blood : a cat with no claws and ineffectual teeth .
27 Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time .
28 I had been taken aback by the extent of his feelings .
29 I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect .
30 In fact , I had been heading resolutely towards a myocardial infarct for at least 15 years .
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