Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] that [noun] " 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 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
5 | 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 . ’ |
6 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
7 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
8 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |