Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
| 2 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 3 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 4 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
| 5 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 6 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 7 | My pen that I 've been working . |
| 8 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 9 | A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it |
| 10 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 11 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 12 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 13 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 14 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 15 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 16 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 17 | That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties . |
| 18 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
| 19 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 20 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 21 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 22 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 23 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 24 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 25 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’ |
| 28 | London is miserable , rain and boredom and I have been drinking steadily in an attempt to instil some gaiety into my apathetic mind … |
| 29 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
| 30 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |