Example sentences of "[noun sg] that 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 4 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 5 | My pen that I 've been working . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 11 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 14 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 15 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
| 16 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
| 17 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 18 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 19 | How can teachers be prepared to undertake the process of pragmatic mediation that I have been proposing in these chapters ? |
| 20 | if we do n't work on the strategy that I 've been suggesting |
| 21 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 22 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 23 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 24 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 25 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 26 | ‘ I see you are determined to prove your assertion that I have been wasting my time . |
| 27 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |