Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 2 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 3 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 4 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 5 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 6 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 9 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 10 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 11 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 12 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 13 | For a while I had been ringing the Lost Property office at Queen Street station each week , still pathetically hoping that the bag with Uncle Rory 's poems and Darren Watt 's Möbius scarf would somehow miraculously turn up again . |
| 14 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 15 | I had been wearing the uniform in which he must remember her . |
| 16 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 17 | I HAD BEEN making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped . |
| 18 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 19 | I had been badgering the tour 's publicist for an interview with Scotty , who had apparently arrived toting his original Ray Butts amplifier with built-in tape echo , but things were n't looking too hopeful . |
| 20 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 21 | I had been travelling the country flogging Soviet magazines — I was working for Collet 's bookshops — and I stayed with a comrade in Edinburgh who kept a boarding house . |
| 22 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 23 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 24 | I had been paying the fees of the home a month in advance , but when explaining about the social security payments , I sent two months ' fees in advance to cover , as I thought , any delay . |
| 25 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 26 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 27 | It 's dark , cold and pouring with rain as I leave the office of E. and B. Productions where I 've been discussing the pantomime orchestra with Paul , the company musical director . |
| 28 | I 've been scouring the papers , and there 's no mention . ’ |
| 29 | I 've been considering the problem this afternoon . |
| 30 | I 've been championing the suppliers ' cause for some time now and I really feel let down . |