Example sentences of "i [verb] been [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been given it when I was seven but I 'd never learnt to play it . |
| 2 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
| 3 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 4 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
| 5 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 6 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 7 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 8 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
| 9 | Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself . |
| 10 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 11 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 12 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 13 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 14 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 15 | Well I 've been holding it to save it . |
| 16 | I think I 've been given it er some good cause rather than |
| 17 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
| 18 | Naturally , I 've been thinking it over ever since poor Sarah burst into my room this morning . |
| 19 | Since then I 've been thinking it over and I 've come up with an idea . |
| 20 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
| 21 | " I 've been dreading it , " he said . |
| 22 | I 've been bottling it up inside me far too long . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 24 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 25 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 26 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Anne , if I 've been taking it out on you these past couple of weeks . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 30 | And he said oh I 've been taking it out of one of our own caravans , our own caravans he said . |