Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 2 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 3 | ‘ Someone has been playing a stupid game with me . |
| 4 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 5 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 6 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 7 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 8 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 9 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 10 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 11 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 12 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 13 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 14 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 15 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 16 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 17 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 18 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 19 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 20 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 21 | Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter . |
| 22 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 23 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 24 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 25 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 26 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |
| 27 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 28 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 29 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 30 | ‘ You did n't tell me you could ride , ’ she said , rather irritated , as if I had been keeping a secret from her . |