Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been taking a lot of coal out these last few days , everyone has been putting the hours in . |
| 2 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 3 | If a pet cat has access to the garage where someone has been filling the car 's radiator system with antifreeze at the onset of winter , the animal may see a small puddle on the garage floor , where some has spilled . |
| 4 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 5 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 6 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 7 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 10 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 11 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 12 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 13 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 14 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 15 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 19 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 20 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 27 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 28 | Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter . |
| 29 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 30 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |