Example sentences of "[conj] i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
2 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
3 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
4 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
5 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
8 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
9 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
10 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
11 | And went on telling him odiously about me ( one Saturday morning shopping in the Village ) and I did n't know where to look , although I 'd been wanting to meet him . |
12 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
13 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
14 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
15 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
16 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
17 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
18 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
19 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
20 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | if we do n't work on the strategy that I 've been suggesting |
23 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
24 | With an instant return to sweet reasonableness , Andrée said , ‘ Admitted that I 've been trying to seduce you , does n't that only go to show how desperate I am to get my way ? |
25 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
26 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
27 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
28 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
29 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
30 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |