Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 3 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 4 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 7 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 8 | Well I mean I do n't , well I 've never I think 's holding that hat on . |
| 9 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 11 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 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 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 21 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 22 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 23 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 24 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 25 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 26 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 29 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 30 | I 've been coughing all night ! |