Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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1 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
7 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
8 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
9 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
10 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
11 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
12 | Well I 've been holding it to save it . |
13 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
14 | Naturally , I 've been thinking it over ever since poor Sarah burst into my room this morning . |
15 | Since then I 've been thinking it over and I 've come up with an idea . |
16 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
17 | " I 've been dreading it , " he said . |
18 | I 've been bottling it up inside me far too long . |
19 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
20 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
21 | I 've been using it all the time . |
22 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
23 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Anne , if I 've been taking it out on you these past couple of weeks . ’ |
24 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
25 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
26 | And he said oh I 've been taking it out of one of our own caravans , our own caravans he said . |
27 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
28 | ‘ I 've been expecting it ever since I heard that they found Uncle Mosse underneath the floorboards . |
29 | I 've been filling it in |
30 | I 've been filling it in in pencil . |