Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have been saying he is an absolute ‘ bag o shite ’ since day one ( I was so mystified by the signing I was moved to write to the local rag — and they printed it ! ! ) . |
| 32 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 33 | As the newer varieties of catfish have appeared in my local aquatic outlet , I have been purchasing them . |
| 34 | Thus pornographic representations are to be condemned because they reinforce the desires to treat people , and it is usually women , i n the way I have been arguing they are treated . |
| 35 | But since there is obviously a market for the invention of new mountain pursuits , I have been giving it some thought . |
| 36 | ‘ … that I have been neglecting your education . |
| 37 | I feel I have been neglecting your drawing lately . " |
| 38 | I have been waiting my time . |
| 39 | Anyway , one day at a time : tomorrow I go to Durham and , as Mother said ’ — she pursed her lips now — ‘ it will give me an opportunity to wear some of the clothes I have been spending my money on . |
| 40 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 41 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 42 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 43 | I have been preparing myself to tell you all my mind . |
| 44 | But , over the past few months , I have been investigating something that makes such abstractions far more impressive . |
| 45 | The items I have found on such sites have proved to be of great interest , and I have been logging them down very carefully . |
| 46 | I wish I had saved the hedgehog now , and not stood aside , and I have been wondering what stopped me from performing a natural act of sentimental kindness . |
| 47 | I have been delaying you . |
| 48 | While you have been perfecting your French , I have been bettering my English . |
| 49 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 50 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 51 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 52 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 53 | The full title was not visible but what I read was , ‘ Paint along with — ’ Whom , I have been asking myself since . |
| 54 | I have been asking myself again why it is that the UK continues to suffer worse swings of ‘ stop-go ’ economic cycles than any of our competitors , with more serious effects in particular on business confidence . |
| 55 | But I followed him , and I have been following him since that day . |
| 56 | Similarly , upon receiving a client , immediately introduce yourself by name , and preferably also by card , so that in two minutes the client is calling you by your own name and feels you have been handling his business all his life . |
| 57 | You will be utterly ashamed of the mawkish , sentimental way you have been handling it . |
| 58 | You have been expecting us . ’ |
| 59 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 60 | You have been feeding it though ? |