Example sentences of "that [pron] have been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 2 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 3 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
| 4 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 5 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 6 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 7 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 8 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 9 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 10 | ‘ I see you are determined to prove your assertion that I have been wasting my time . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you suggesting , sir , that I have been shirking my duties ? |
| 12 | That I have been seducing his daughter ? |
| 13 | ‘ … that I have been neglecting your education . |
| 14 | Dyson remembered , at the sight of her silently writing , that she had been nagging him . |
| 15 | She said in a rage that she had been thinking it was rough on him to belong to a society with a theology of gambling . |
| 16 | She was adamant that she had been wearing her G-string at the time — round her ankle . |
| 17 | She was quite attractive except for a very nasty skin condition , her face and arms were covered with a large number of pustules and it was obvious that she had been scratching them ; the scratch-marks were bleeding slightly . |
| 18 | Suddenly conscious that she had been holding her breath , Katherine pulled the door closed and then leaned back against the wall , aware of the pounding of her heart . |
| 19 | She now set out to please my mother , not by pretence that she had been spending her time worthily , but in shared reminiscence . |
| 20 | She was dimly aware that she had been treating her friends badly . |
| 21 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 22 | But , as she all at once realised that he thought , actually thought , that she had been pumping his secretary about him , so a tide of pink warmed her cheeks , and , ‘ Nothing ! ’ she exclaimed hotly , more startlement hitting her as it dawned on her that this then was the reason for his fury when he 'd seen them together . |
| 23 | I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me . |
| 24 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 25 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 26 | If it makes you feel any better , you may like to know that she 's been telling me that our separation was all my fault — because I was too proud to climb down , or admit I was in the wrong . |
| 27 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 28 | I trust that you have been reading my peerless prose this lovely morning . ’ |
| 29 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
| 30 | A lot of what has been said about make up has been very negative its to disguise or improve , its also an expression of er inner identity and its not something that 's new to the twentieth century , its something that we 've been doing you know since the beginning of time with war paint and what not . |