Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 3 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 4 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 5 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 6 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 7 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 10 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 11 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 14 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 15 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 16 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 17 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 18 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 19 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 20 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 21 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 24 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 25 | I had been washing all his hand . |
| 26 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 27 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 28 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 29 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 30 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |