Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 13 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 14 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 15 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 16 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 17 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 18 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 19 | She said in a rage that she had been thinking it was rough on him to belong to a society with a theology of gambling . |
| 20 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 21 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 22 | She had been practising it on him for years . |
| 23 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 24 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 25 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 26 | She had been covering it up for years . |
| 27 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 28 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 29 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 30 | On the afternoon of the second day , we put one of the Harris 's hawks on a creance , as we would have if we had been training it , and tried a spot of flying . |