Example sentences of "i [verb] been [v-ing] 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 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
6 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
7 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
8 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
13 | 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 . ’ |