Example sentences of "i [verb] been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 2 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 3 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 4 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 5 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 6 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 7 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 9 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 10 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 11 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 12 | I must have known that those were the very advantages I had been denying myself in denying myself food . |
| 13 | You see , I had been doing something about my own future , too . |
| 14 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 15 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 16 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 17 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 21 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 22 | ‘ The niece , the one I 've been telling you about . |
| 23 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 24 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 25 | And er I feel I 've been wearing one for about twenty five years and I feel a lot better , I feel I feel as if I look good in a wig . |
| 26 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 28 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 29 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 30 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |