Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 2 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 3 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 4 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 5 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 6 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 7 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 8 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 9 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 11 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 12 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 13 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 14 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 15 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 16 | I know I 've been working . |
| 17 | I know I 've been behaving like a pig , comme un porco , for a bit , but please read all my letters from the Jungle and you 'll see I 'm a changed man . |
| 18 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 19 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 20 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 21 | I suppose I 've been making a fool of myself . |
| 22 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
| 23 | And er I feel I 've been wearing one for about twenty five years and I feel a lot better , I feel I feel as if I look good in a wig . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , it 's only that I feel I 've been wasting my life ! |
| 25 | I feel I have been neglecting your drawing lately . " |
| 26 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 28 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 29 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 30 | ’ I think I 've been luring you into bad ways . ’ |