Example sentences of "i have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the lead-up to the trip I had been telling Nat about the Northern Lights and how wonderful they were . |
| 32 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 33 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 34 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 35 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 36 | I had been reading Tales from the Iliad . |
| 37 | During my travels round Ireland , I had been reading Sleeman 's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Magistrate . |
| 38 | For the past week I had been learning lines in preparation for an appearance in a new play due to start rehearsing later that month , and I loathed interruptions . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 41 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 42 | He said yesterday : ‘ I 'm sure I had been making inquiries ( in 1945 ) about what would happen to people who we sent back . |
| 43 | I had been told Chinchero was a traditional Andean market and I was interested to see the campesino culture at its most effective . |
| 44 | Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all . |
| 45 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 46 | I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 47 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 48 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 49 | ‘ Next thing I knew was the letter to say I had been fined £720 . |
| 50 | I had been visiting Welcombe with Nigel since 1960 . |
| 51 | I had been visiting houses and gardens that were open for the day to the public . |
| 52 | I had been visiting villages to the north of the parish . |
| 53 | ‘ I had been visiting hospitals every week for 37 years but you get a different perspective after something like this . |
| 54 | The only other twentieth-century example I have found is also from an Irish-born writer : ( 198 ) I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 55 | I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 56 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 57 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 58 | Look I 've been holding Richard . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | I 've been organising classes … ’ |