Example sentences of "[conj] i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 32 | Do you realise , that I 've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy ? |
| 33 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 34 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 35 | Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you . |
| 36 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 37 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 38 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 39 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 40 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 41 | I did n't tell your mum that I 'd got it on you see she said now all that I 've been saying ! |
| 42 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
| 43 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 44 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 45 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |
| 46 | My pen that I 've been working . |
| 47 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 48 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 49 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 50 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 51 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 52 | Afterwards , I crawled backstage to visit Michael Crawford , forgetting that I 'd been wearing Clinique 's face-bronzer for that glowing , outdoor , tanned look we all know and simulate . |
| 53 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 54 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 57 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 58 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 59 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 60 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |