Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb past] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The one to whom I had been speaking was shivering audibly . |
| 4 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I was shocked to discover someone I knew was running the place . |
| 6 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 7 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 8 | The old man sat up with a jerk , slopping scotch over his hands which I noticed were shaking . |
| 9 | I felt that perhaps here , at last , was the way into the treatment of genetic disorders for which I had been searching . |
| 10 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 11 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 12 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 13 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 14 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 15 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 16 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 17 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 18 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 19 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 20 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 21 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 22 | Saw three fellows at the end of Royce Wood , who I found were laying out the plan for an iron rail way from Manchester to London . |
| 23 | ‘ Later I told you I 'd been overreacting , ’ Luke reminded her tightly . |
| 24 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 25 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 26 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 27 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
| 28 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 29 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 30 | 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 . |