Example sentences of "[subord] i have [been] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 2 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |
| 3 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 4 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 5 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 6 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 7 | I ca n't spea cos I 've been learning German I ca n't remember it . |
| 8 | Because I had been understudying Constance Donovan I was now to play Lydia , the second lead . |
| 9 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 10 | Tell me what you 've been doing , while I 've been moving mountains . ’ |
| 11 | I feel a lot more at ease since I 've been using prostitutes . |
| 12 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 13 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 14 | When I 've been taking Paul to work in the morning they 've been giving me flashes and then if I , you know , flashed them back they have n't put their headlights on so I thought oh bugger yous ! |
| 15 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 16 | I mean I 've certainly been very much helped in the time at Sussex when I 've been working part time by the men that I 've worked with |
| 17 | As I had been enjoying Marlborough , which in atmosphere , personnel , and not least location , was in total contrast to the Sloane School , Chelsea , I no doubt gave him a slightly rose-tinted account of the life there . |
| 18 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |