Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 2 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 3 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 9 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 14 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 15 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 18 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 19 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 20 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 21 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 23 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 24 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 25 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
| 27 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 29 | I said rapidly , ‘ I 've been having these dreams . |
| 30 | I 've been studying these boys and I can till you they 're bloodee slow — so lit 's git out there and run the ligs off them ! ’ |