Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 2 | I 'd been hoping my daughter would be brought to see me at Holloway and was frightened of her turning up and finding me not there . |
| 3 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 4 | Accused of being insolent , the private may say : ‘ No I was n't , sergeant , I was just saying I 'd been cleaning my boots . ’ |
| 5 | If I 'd been carrying my gun I 'd have pulled it . |
| 6 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 7 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 8 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 9 | I had been using my travelling battery shaver while house-sitting and despite what Victor Kiam says , nothing beats hot water and cold steel . |
| 10 | Whyte ( 1955 ) agrees : ‘ As I sat and listened , I learned the answers to questions I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been getting my information solely on an interviewing basis . ’ |
| 11 | We used the same old path , and I was amazed to realise that without knowing it I had been hurrying my children along and constantly looking over my shoulder . |
| 12 | I 've been ringing my family at regular intervals to see how things are going . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been ringing your number for hours . ’ |
| 14 | I was worried sick when I saw it , and I 've been ringing your number on and off for the past hour . |
| 15 | I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read . |
| 16 | Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’ |
| 17 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been biding my time waiting for this Ulster call , and was delighted when John Clarke gave me the nod , ’ he said . |
| 19 | So I 've been biding my time . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , it 's only that I feel I 've been wasting my life ! |
| 21 | I feel very bitter about this , it seems as if I 've been wasting my time . ’ |
| 22 | I feel very bitter about this , it seems as if I 've been wasting my time . ’ |
| 23 | " I 've been reading your letters , " she said . |
| 24 | And I 've been nagging my parents . |
| 25 | Ah , I 've been using me credit cards |
| 26 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 27 | I 've watched , I 've been watching my cartoons |
| 28 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 29 | I 've been racking my brain to remember what Sue Puffett used to be called . |
| 30 | I 've been racking my brains for what I could have done , then it struck me . |