Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 2 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 3 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 5 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 7 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 8 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 9 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 10 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 11 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 12 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 13 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 14 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 15 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 16 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 17 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 18 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 19 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 20 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 21 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 22 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 23 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 24 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 25 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 26 | I 've been administering first aid . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 28 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 29 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 30 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |