Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 2 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 3 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 5 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 6 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 7 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 8 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 9 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
| 10 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
| 15 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 16 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 17 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |
| 18 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 19 | 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 . |