Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 3 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 4 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 5 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 6 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 7 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 8 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 9 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 10 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 11 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 12 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 13 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
| 14 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 15 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 16 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
| 17 | I 'd been going out burgling , like . |
| 18 | I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between . |
| 19 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 20 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 21 | I had been reaching up to put packets and tins into one of the wall cupboards , but this startled me into turning . |
| 22 | And the question I had been holding down with my domestic frenzy , my sorting and tidying , my focus on Matter , burst through : would the decay have set in ? |
| 23 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 24 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 25 | It fitted in with what I had been working out already . |
| 26 | I 've been ringing off and on since lunchtime . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been holding back again this passion . |
| 28 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 29 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 30 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |