Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 3 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 4 | He felt he had been upsetting one or two people and that the game would be easier to control without him around . |
| 5 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 6 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 7 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 10 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 11 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 12 | He said he 'd been feeling depressed . |
| 13 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |