Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 3 | But I mean is gon na struggle cos he ai n't had many people for very long , has he ? |
| 4 | I mean were working with five at the minute , we 'll go to that place and double it up to say ten and by this time next , next year there 's not any reason why it should n't be more to sixteen |
| 5 | Another lady that I met was suffering from the elephant man 's disease ; her husband had recently died and she was expecting a baby . |
| 6 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 7 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 9 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 10 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 11 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 12 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 13 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 14 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 17 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 18 | It was body language I 'd been counting on to win her round . |
| 19 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 20 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 21 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 22 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 23 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 24 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 25 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 26 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 28 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 29 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 30 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |