Example sentences of "i [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another lady that I met was suffering from the elephant man 's disease ; her husband had recently died and she was expecting a baby . |
| 2 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 3 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 5 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 6 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 7 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 8 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 9 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 10 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 11 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 12 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 13 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 14 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 15 | like Alligator Gun for example I know is coming to the , to the Kings up the road here quite soon and then it 's going to Glasgow later on , and I keep thinking every time this sort of thing , thing 's happening I keep thinking we could be dealing with these |
| 16 | The working groups are currently on working on that , and they , my colleagues I assume are talking to the the officers of the Social Services about that , what is happening , but the final outcome has yet to appear . |
| 17 | The next thing I remember is standing on the motorway verge , waving for help . |
| 18 | The next thing I remember was lying on the ground surrounded by players and officials . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He said what I needed was throwing on the floor and to be given a good seeing to , ’ she told the Norwich hearing . |
| 20 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 21 | What I saw was staggering for the line which passed through those three points apparently intersected three others — a standing stone , just off the Marlborough Road , a bi-section of two round barrows — the line passed cleanly through the narrow gap between them , and finally the most important of all — the west end of the West Kennet long barrow . |
| 22 | What I love is looking at the designs and helping choose the fabrics — and working out how much to charge ! ’ |
| 23 | The same as the way that this gentleman has found it 's somebody else making a decision to what people can see and I do n't consider some a show like Pro 's and Con 's which had female nudity and two hundred and fifty people walk out in one night to mean something which I think is enhancing to the playhouse . . |
| 24 | All I did was looking in the windows . |
| 25 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 26 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 27 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 28 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 29 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 30 | About a fortnight before that , and ten days after the night at the prison , I had been passing along the road , with my arm through Martinho 's , when I had cause to do a double-take on a group of beggars by the roadside . |