Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 3 | Look I 've been holding Richard . |
| 4 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 5 | I 've been organising classes … ’ |
| 6 | I 've been buying bars and bars of that see . |
| 7 | Yes there is I 've been , yeah I 've been I 've been buying shares er Excon shares in a share p er a share purchase |
| 8 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 9 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been telling Veronica about the week we had in Scotland . |
| 11 | I 've been trying mail order . |
| 12 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 13 | At last , seeing the impatient glint in his eyes , she drew a long breath and said , ‘ I 've been thinking things over — thinking very deeply — and I 've come to the conclusion that your idea of merging our two practices is , after all , the most sensible solution to our problem . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been thinking Mo . |
| 15 | so , anyway , she must of thought about this , so she called on Monday , and she said oh I 've been thinking Michael 'll need electric for the drill |
| 16 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 17 | I 've been getting attacks of giddiness and I 'm not sleeping well . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 19 | And er , I 've been learning flats and sharps and all that . |
| 20 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 21 | I ca n't spea cos I 've been learning German I ca n't remember it . |
| 22 | I 've been using Lotus 1-2-3 to draw various graphs from the data I collect each week . |
| 23 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 25 | I feel a lot more at ease since I 've been using prostitutes . |
| 26 | When I 've been taking Paul to work in the morning they 've been giving me flashes and then if I , you know , flashed them back they have n't put their headlights on so I thought oh bugger yous ! |
| 27 | I 've been no I 've been taking kind of palpitations , I do n't know , and I 'm as tired as |
| 28 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 29 | After Black Sheep , Paul went on to be involved with Racer X , and so on , but yeah , I 've been taking care of his gear for many years now … ’ |
| 30 | I 've been drinking vodkas all night . |