Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The last thing I want is to impale this dancing , living creature upon the stake of meaning . |
2 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
3 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
4 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
5 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
6 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
7 | I remember being given some caviar once when we were in Russia — wrapped in newspaper because they had no containers to put it in ! |
8 | Well I mean I do n't , well I 've never I think 's holding that hat on . |
9 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
10 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
11 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
12 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
13 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
14 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
15 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
16 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
17 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
21 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
22 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
23 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
24 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
25 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
27 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
28 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
29 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
30 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |