Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [verb] that " in BNC.
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1 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
2 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
3 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
4 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
5 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
6 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
7 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
8 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
9 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
10 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
11 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
12 | I 've been learning that . |
13 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
14 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |
15 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
16 | Must get one a microwave if Debbie comes home I think , I 'll see , I 've been saying that but I was thinking if , I 'll have to wait and see Debbie |
17 | ‘ I 've been admiring that . ’ |
18 | They 're Spanish , oh I 've been admiring that tonight |
19 | I 've been told that before by a hypnotherapist . |
20 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
21 | I 've been told that on Tuesday . |
22 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
23 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
24 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
25 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
26 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
27 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
28 | I 've been doing that . |
29 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
30 | I 've been doing that today as well . |