Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] i have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 2 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 4 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 5 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 6 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 7 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 8 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I ca n't pay you until I 've been paid . |
| 13 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 16 | I 'm so glad you had this conversation with me while I 've been miked up and I 've got it all taped . |
| 17 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 20 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 25 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 26 | No , I 've been logging them as I 've been going . |