Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 3 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 7 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 9 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 10 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 11 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 12 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 13 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 14 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 15 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 16 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 17 | Having just purchased a lovely thoroughbred mare , I have been considering various events I could take up . |
| 18 | I have been coaching black kids for more than 20 years . |
| 19 | In an effort to make life more interesting for our younger members of staff and our graduate element , I have been inviting past students back to lecture on any aspect of their current work . |
| 20 | I have been using unleaded petrol in my Ninety 2.5 litre . |
| 21 | Since my wife was diagnosed with the illness , I have been researching alternative cures during which time I have come into contact with the ‘ Association stop au cancer ’ based at 29 Bd Gambetta , 73000 Chambery Cedex , France . |
| 22 | I have been growing small plots for some years , but have not yet solved the problem of threshing . |
| 23 | In this series I have been introducing twentieth-century martyrs to illustrate the points I have been making . |
| 24 | Michael O'Reilly , parish priest of the hosting church , Our Lady of Good Counsel , added , ‘ I have been doing directed retreats for about fifteen years — it was good to have one in the parish which could be shared with our Christian friends from the other churches in Seacroft . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 27 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 28 | I have been paying National Insurance and taxes for many years . |