Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 2 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 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 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 6 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter . |
| 14 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 15 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 16 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 17 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |
| 18 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You did n't tell me you could ride , ’ she said , rather irritated , as if I had been keeping a secret from her . |
| 21 | I had been studying a guide-book to Zamora before we left . |
| 22 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 23 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 24 | I had been interviewing a family — four young brothers , two sisters , their parents , the children 's paternal grandmother — about their lives in a city that was now dominated by the Syrian army . |
| 25 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 26 | I 've been reading a copy of the above document and I must say I am very disturbed by its proposals , and disappointed at the negative attitude it conveys . |
| 27 | ‘ But I 've been reading an interview in Groundswell where Johnny Boy says that he 's misunderstood and really he 's got a heart of gold . ’ |
| 28 | But recently I 've been thinking a lot about a person I see once a week at a club . |
| 29 | ‘ Miranda , I 've been thinking a lot about you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been thinking a lot about it , ’ she said , moving the salt cellar in a pattern on the tablecloth , ‘ and I think — ’ |