Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 2 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 3 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 4 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 5 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 11 | He interrupted her thoughts and showed he was himself still on the same track , for he observed , ‘ I 've been called many things in my time , but never a bully , or , ’ he frowned again , ‘ a megalomaniac out of a horror movie . ’ |
| 12 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
| 14 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 16 | I said rapidly , ‘ I 've been having these dreams . |
| 17 | I 've been studying these boys and I can till you they 're bloodee slow — so lit 's git out there and run the ligs off them ! ’ |
| 18 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 22 | ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! ) |
| 23 | I have been told these engines were derated to 90hp by a plate under the carbs . |
| 24 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 25 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
| 26 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 27 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 28 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 29 | All she did was get some friends to help a friend , and now look what 's happened . |
| 30 | As your float approaches the section where you 've been getting most bites , you dress the line again , following the downstream progress of your float with the tip of your rod . |