Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 2 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 3 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 4 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 5 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 6 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 7 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 8 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 9 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 10 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 11 | I 've been told that on Tuesday . |
| 12 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 13 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 14 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |
| 20 | I 've been fined thousands of dollars for much less than Senna did . |
| 21 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been made privy to the wisdom and knowledge of the Galactic Great Folk , and have returned here to solve all the world 's problems . ’ |
| 23 | I have been doing this for over ten years . |
| 24 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 25 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 26 | I have been keeping fit with swimming . |
| 27 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 28 | For example , an investor might sell for 100p per share one week and if he or she has been proven correct in their expectations may buy the share for say 80p each the following week , thus netting a profit per share of 20p before transactions costs . |
| 29 | In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) . |
| 30 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |