Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 2 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 3 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 4 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 7 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 8 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 9 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
| 10 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 11 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 12 | the er the lady that comes to the meetings cos I 've been going to them . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes . |
| 14 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 15 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 18 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 19 | I ai n't been down there for about three weeks since I 've been going there . |
| 20 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |
| 21 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 22 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 23 | er , then , so that 's at least , well in fact that 's more than sufficient , I should get paid more than six hours because I 've been working on the students , on the disabled games all day Friday |
| 24 | It 's had about ten or twelve names since I 've been going there , though some of them were just for one night , just for a party or celebration , and even then the name was never written up anywhere , you just had to know that tonight it was The Lily Pond , or The Jewel Box , The Gigolo , The Hustler , The Place ( no , I think that was somewhere else ) , Grave Charges ( I loved that one ) — or The You Know You Like It , I remember that year especially . |
| 25 | There was a brief silence then Gerald spoke up : ‘ I 've seen the safe open several times since I 've been working in the business . |
| 26 | Oh you hear it , it 's rung for as much as twenty minutes while I 've been walking round . |
| 27 | I have made many friends since I have been working . |
| 28 | Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you . |
| 29 | I shall ensure that their names are added to all the complaints that I have been making . |
| 30 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |