Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 2 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 4 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 5 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 6 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 7 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 8 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 9 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 10 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 11 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 12 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 13 | I 'd been hoping my daughter would be brought to see me at Holloway and was frightened of her turning up and finding me not there . |
| 14 | People had been wandering past us and paying the man in the booth in the white lodge and I 'd been envying them opening their purses and their wallets and shelling out all that money . |
| 15 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
| 16 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 17 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 18 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 19 | Accused of being insolent , the private may say : ‘ No I was n't , sergeant , I was just saying I 'd been cleaning my boots . ’ |
| 20 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 21 | If things had turned out differently I 'd been driving you down here . |
| 22 | I 'd been wondering what made me think of Schumann . ’ |
| 23 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 24 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
| 25 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 26 | If I 'd been carrying my gun I 'd have pulled it . |
| 27 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 28 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 29 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 30 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |