Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 3 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 4 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 5 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 6 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 7 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 8 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 9 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 10 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 11 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
| 13 | I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day . |
| 16 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
| 18 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been coming to games at the Manor since I was 10 … not every week like but since three seasons ago I have n't missed a match — I 've been to them all . |
| 20 | I 've been going to meetings for a while now ’ . |
| 21 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 22 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 23 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
| 25 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been knocking on doors the other night there . |
| 28 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 29 | My searches this month have followed exactly the same lines as those of last month ; that is to say , I have been venturing into areas possessing no known or recorded activity . |
| 30 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |