Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] i [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 2 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 4 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't spoken more than half a dozen words to your wife in the whole time you and I have been working together , ’ protested Matt . |
| 7 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |
| 8 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 9 | and I went with her last week , then she had to go again on Monday , but she went Saturday as well , then she had to go back up Monday the last , so she has n't been have n't seen her since I 've been gon na go up all week but the weather |
| 10 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 11 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 12 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 13 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 14 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 15 | No , I 've been logging them as I 've been going . |