Example sentences of "i have been [verb] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 2 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 3 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 4 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 5 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 6 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |
| 7 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 9 | I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’ |
| 11 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 12 | No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James . |