Example sentences of "[conj] i have [been] [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 2 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 've been having attacks of vertigo , ’ volunteered Ray , with a hint of pride . |
| 4 | Well , I 'm sure that there will be some folks at the lecture that will raise those questions , I , I have so much to say and I 've been making notes . |
| 5 | And I 've been asking questions here and there . |
| 6 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 7 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 8 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 9 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 10 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 11 | But I 'd been working nights to live on . |
| 12 | Tell me what you 've been doing , while I 've been moving mountains . ’ |
| 13 | I feel a lot more at ease since I 've been using prostitutes . |
| 14 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 15 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 16 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |