Example sentences of "i [verb] been [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 3 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 5 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 10 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 11 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 12 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been asked on many occasions if we could have more modern replacements for our 12-year-old sail designs . |
| 14 | I have been moved on two or three thousand times in the last few years |
| 15 | I have been approached on many levels , from stripograms in the office to packages arriving at reception with worms and a message inside threatening even worse if I did n't see the band ( I did n't ) . |
| 16 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 17 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 18 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |