Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 2 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 5 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 8 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 9 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 10 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I have been doing this for over ten years . |
| 18 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 19 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 20 | I have been keeping fit with swimming . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 23 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 24 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 25 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 26 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 27 | Now obviously that requires a more precise working knowledge of newspapers and the other media , what they want , when and how they need it , what the sort of particular publication is , you 've been discussing some of that and we can perhaps go into some of that in , in a bit more detail a bit later on . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose you 've been reading all about it in the papers ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 30 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |