Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 2 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 3 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 4 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 5 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 6 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 8 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 9 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 10 | I 've been going to Glorious Goodwood for twenty years — and invariably play golf while I 'm there . |
| 11 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 12 | ‘ The way you just came barging over just now — you could have blown everything I 've been working towards sky-high . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been driving like mad to catch up with you . |
| 15 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 16 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
| 17 | For over thirty years , along with my fellow teachers , I have been going to educational conferences , and training sessions , and workshops , to hear countless leaders in education talk , as you do , about the dignity of the child , and the importance of individual differences , and of fostering positive self-concepts , and building on the interests of the child , and letting the child learn from curiosity rather than fear . |
| 18 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 20 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 21 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 22 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 23 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 24 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 25 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 26 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 27 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 28 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 29 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 30 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |