Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 2 | But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal . |
| 3 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 4 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 5 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 6 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 7 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 8 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 9 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 10 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 11 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 12 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 13 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 14 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 15 | Aye , he , I mean he 's been doing quite well , cos that 's George usually smoked you know ? |
| 16 | I mean she 's been living off what seventy three odd quid has she ? |
| 17 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 18 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 19 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 20 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 21 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 22 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’ |
| 25 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 26 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 27 | " I expect you 've been watching those " Bleakland " programmes , have n't you , Grandmother ? " |
| 28 | ‘ I expect she 's been sitting too long in the sun , ’ she said . |
| 29 | ‘ I got a bit worried when I found you 'd been sending your subordinates out to buy crucifixes . ’ |
| 30 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |