Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been expecting something like this since Isabel had killed the soldier . |
| 2 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 3 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 4 | Mr Fennell was worried because he thought nobody came to meet you , ’ he said , and she knew by his expression that the ancient tyrant had been upbraiding him on this account . |
| 5 | Although she had been expecting something like this , Robbie 's mouth was suddenly dry , her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth . |
| 6 | Another man said that Portadown had been expecting something like this after the recent attacks in Lurgan . |
| 7 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 8 | And the question I 've been asking myself of this , is that erm , where did we start from . |
| 9 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 10 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 11 | First of all , many people have been asking me on this programme in the past what credentials you people on the Council have for setting a budget . |