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 . |