Example sentences of "i have been [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 3 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 4 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 5 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 6 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 7 | In the lead-up to the trip I had been telling Nat about the Northern Lights and how wonderful they were . |
| 8 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 9 | I had been reading Tales from the Iliad . |
| 10 | For the past week I had been learning lines in preparation for an appearance in a new play due to start rehearsing later that month , and I loathed interruptions . |
| 11 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 12 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 13 | I had been visiting Welcombe with Nigel since 1960 . |
| 14 | I had been visiting villages to the north of the parish . |
| 15 | The only other twentieth-century example I have found is also from an Irish-born writer : ( 198 ) I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 16 | I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 17 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 18 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 19 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been telling Veronica about the week we had in Scotland . |
| 21 | I 've been asked loads of questions . |
| 22 | I 've been stopped loads of times and had my bag searched |
| 23 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 24 | I 've been getting attacks of giddiness and I 'm not sleeping well . |
| 25 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 26 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 28 | I 've been no I 've been taking kind of palpitations , I do n't know , and I 'm as tired as |
| 29 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 30 | After Black Sheep , Paul went on to be involved with Racer X , and so on , but yeah , I 've been taking care of his gear for many years now … ’ |