Example sentences of "[conj] i have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 2 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 3 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 4 | Funny enough , Peter and I have both been swimming together and we 've both got the same thing |
| 5 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 6 | I 'm supposed to , watching me diet and I have n't been eating roast potatoes |
| 7 | ‘ But obviously you ca n't have the confidence unless you keep winning , and I have n't been winning since April when I started struggling with injury . ’ |
| 8 | And I have n't been doing it . |
| 9 | It 's 1,000 years old and I have n't been diving that long to make a find like that . |
| 10 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 11 | Then , and so then but I have n't been seeing Mrs . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to see a sports psychologist because I have n't been focusing on the job and I must become more positive . ’ |
| 14 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 15 | ‘ As I have just been telling your nurse , I 'm having trouble listening to a chest . |
| 16 | Though I have n't been testing these boots for long before writing this review , initial impressions are very favourable . |