Example sentences of "i [vb past] been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 2 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 3 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 4 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 5 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 6 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 7 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 8 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 9 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 10 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 13 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 15 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 16 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 17 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 18 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 19 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 20 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 21 | Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter . |
| 22 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 23 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 24 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 25 | I had been wearing the uniform in which he must remember her . |
| 26 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |
| 27 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 28 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 29 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 30 | ‘ You did n't tell me you could ride , ’ she said , rather irritated , as if I had been keeping a secret from her . |