Example sentences of "i have [been] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 2 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 3 | I 'd been drinking scrumpy . |
| 4 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 5 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 6 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd been working flat out . |
| 8 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 9 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 10 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 11 | Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all . |
| 12 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 13 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 've been trying mail order . |
| 17 | I ca n't spea cos I 've been learning German I ca n't remember it . |
| 18 | I 've been using Lotus 1-2-3 to draw various graphs from the data I collect each week . |
| 19 | I 've been no I 've been taking kind of palpitations , I do n't know , and I 'm as tired as |
| 20 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 21 | 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 … ’ |
| 22 | Sometimes I 've been drinking tea with a Sherpa friend of mine in the village of Kundy and there 'll be a clatter up the stairs caused by a dozen people saying ‘ We understand Hillary 's here ’ , as if that gives them the right to charge in and take over . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been filling time wherever I am . |
| 24 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been watching television . |
| 26 | a while to transpose , I 've been printing stuff on card recently , |
| 27 | I mean I 've certainly been very much helped in the time at Sussex when I 've been working part time by the men that I 've worked with |
| 28 | I 've been working flat out , trying to get my consultancy off the ground . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been selling patchwork for some time now , ’ she went on . |
| 30 | I have to say , however , that whenever he thought I was becoming a shade morbid on visions of apocalyptic doom , my old friend Archie Dow , would admonish me : ’ Ach , Andra , I 've been waitin' fir the end i' the world all my life . |