Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've been nagging my parents . |
| 2 | And I 've been bleeding her white ever since . |
| 3 | I was worried sick when I saw it , and I 've been ringing your number on and off for the past hour . |
| 4 | ‘ You made it sound important , and I 've been racking my brains ever since . ’ |
| 5 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 6 | She 's looking cold , and she 's been cutting her hair again . |
| 7 | " Three men attacked Joe — and we 've been racking our brains trying to figure out a motive . |
| 8 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 9 | So we have established a measure which we call OTIF — on time , in full — and we 've been measuring our performance in this area for the past two years . |
| 10 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |
| 11 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 12 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 13 | Mr Stevenson had been on holiday in Wales , and he had been exploring our beautiful mountains and valleys . |
| 14 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |