Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face
2 I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover .
3 I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping .
4 So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get .
5 I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world .
6 I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world .
7 And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot .
8 I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room .
9 Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening .
10 Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference .
11 I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement .
12 Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter .
13 This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis .
14 Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns .
15 Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain .
16 I had been getting a lot of this .
17 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 .
18 ‘ You did n't tell me you could ride , ’ she said , rather irritated , as if I had been keeping a secret from her .
19 I had been studying a guide-book to Zamora before we left .
20 Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes .
21 I had been interviewing a family — four young brothers , two sisters , their parents , the children 's paternal grandmother — about their lives in a city that was now dominated by the Syrian army .
22 Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too .
23 I 've been reading a copy of the above document and I must say I am very disturbed by its proposals , and disappointed at the negative attitude it conveys .
24 But recently I 've been thinking a lot about a person I see once a week at a club .
25 ‘ Miranda , I 've been thinking a lot about you . ’
26 I 've been thinking a lot about it , ’ she said , moving the salt cellar in a pattern on the tablecloth , ‘ and I think — ’
27 I 've been getting a lot of flak about fighting in Spain and I did n't want Anne to get any .
28 ‘ Lately I 've been getting a hankering to play country music again , so I 've got together with a friend and put together a fun band called Modern Farmer .
29 I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’
30 I 've been using a leave-in conditioner on my hair and am very pleased with the results .
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