Example sentences of "[pron] i have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 2 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 3 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 4 | I have given this Nayar material at some length because it exemplifies such a large number of the themes which I have been emphasizing throughout this book . |
| 5 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 6 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 7 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 8 | The moral common to these stories is one I have been emphasising throughout this discussion . |
| 9 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 10 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 11 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 12 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 13 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 14 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 15 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 16 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 17 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 18 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 19 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 20 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 21 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 22 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |