Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 2 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been moving my portable clinic from one place to another , but now I like it here . |
| 4 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 5 | ‘ For some time now I have been thinking I should marry again . |
| 6 | This has happened when I have been catching plenty of barbel , with no breakages , and the matchmen have asked me what I have been using . |
| 7 | And , although I was instantaneously and utterly in love with you — and quite determined that we should marry as soon as possible — I have been trying my damnedest to keep some kind of control over my emotions . ’ |
| 8 | That I have been seducing his daughter ? |
| 9 | Ma'am , I have been reading my Bible and am left in no doubt that I have sinned and am paying the just penalty for sin and I repent strongly but to no avail as yet . |
| 10 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 11 | I have been wanting it badly . |
| 12 | ‘ I see you are determined to prove your assertion that I have been wasting my time . |
| 13 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been renewing my acquaintance with the wench at The Bull . |
| 15 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 16 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been watching you work , ’ Madame Mattli said directly . |
| 18 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 19 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I have been expecting it . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you suggesting , sir , that I have been shirking my duties ? |
| 22 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 23 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 24 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 25 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 26 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 27 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 28 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
| 29 | My normal reaction would have been to attack back but I was too tired , so I said : " If I understood from what I have been saying what you obviously understand — then I would agree with you . " |
| 30 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |