Example sentences of "i have been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And John and I have been thinking of the worst possible situation that they could have . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 3 | I have been communicating with the Minister since 1988 on that problem . |
| 4 | In this respect , I have been influenced by the success of Proposition 13 enacted in California in 1978 , which necessitated a sharp reduction in property taxes . |
| 5 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 6 | I 'm not quite sure why I have been summoned to the Home Office . " |
| 7 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 8 | For a number of years , my wife Ann and I have been fishing with a party of friends at Altnaharra . |
| 9 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 10 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 11 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 12 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 13 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |
| 14 | I HAVE been reading in the News about whether or not there is some justification for today 's young men being a bit too pushy towards girls . |
| 15 | I have been employed in the hotel and catering industry for 12 years . |
| 16 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 17 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 18 | Each year I have been struck by the repetition of the same pattern of reactions . |
| 19 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 20 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 21 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 22 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 23 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 24 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 27 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 28 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 29 | Lesser rorqual , pilot whales , Risso 's dolphins , killer whales and porpoises are all likely to be met with in Shetland waters and most of my close encounters have been while I have been drifting with the motor stopped . |
| 30 | I have been banished to a windy concrete corridor far from everywhere . |