Example sentences of "that i 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 . |