Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Although I have to confess I 've already been working on it . |
2 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
3 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
4 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
5 | By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December/early January . |
6 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
7 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
8 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
9 | I 've just been thinking about you . " |
10 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
11 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
12 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
13 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
14 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
15 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |
16 | I 've just been shopping with Maggie this morning . |
17 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
18 | It 's a letter from the Executive Services Officer that states , rule six , which is the one I 've just been talking about on the previous motion , is quite clear in saying that only individual members can pursue appeals and not a branch . |
19 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
20 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
21 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
22 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
23 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
24 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
25 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
26 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
27 | I 've just been going through it really , the textbook . |
28 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
29 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
30 | ‘ I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently . |