Example sentences of "[conj] i have been [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 2 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 3 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
| 4 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 5 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 6 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 7 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 8 | People had been wandering past us and paying the man in the booth in the white lodge and I 'd been envying them opening their purses and their wallets and shelling out all that money . |
| 9 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 10 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 11 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 12 | Very exciting stuff and I 've been telling her not to speak so loudly . |
| 13 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 14 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 15 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 16 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw you — turn on to the road — from the station — and I 've been following you all this way ! ’ |
| 18 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
| 19 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 20 | But I followed him , and I have been following him since that day . |
| 21 | The items I have found on such sites have proved to be of great interest , and I have been logging them down very carefully . |
| 22 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |
| 23 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 24 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Anne , if I 've been taking it out on you these past couple of weeks . ’ |
| 26 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 28 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 29 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 30 | But I 've been watching you closely over the last few weeks , Aurora . |