Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have been [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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1 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
2 | It 's just all sore and I 've been taking a pain here this week . |
3 | I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’ |
4 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
5 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
6 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
7 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
8 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
9 | ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat . |
10 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
11 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
12 | ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes . |
13 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |
14 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
15 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
16 | And he had been spending a fortune , perhaps as much as £300,000 , on her . |