Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 32 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 33 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 34 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 35 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 36 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 37 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 38 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 40 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 41 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 42 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 43 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 44 | ‘ I 've been wearing those since I was a casual all those years ago , but they 're a sticks-man item , not mod in any way . ’ |
| 45 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 46 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
| 48 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 49 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 50 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 51 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 52 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 53 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 54 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 55 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 56 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 57 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 58 | But I 've been getting faster as the years go by . |
| 59 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 60 | I 've been learning that . |