Example sentences of "i have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 2 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 3 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 4 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 5 | I 'd been drinking scrumpy . |
| 6 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 7 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 10 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 11 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 13 | Afterwards , I crawled backstage to visit Michael Crawford , forgetting that I 'd been wearing Clinique 's face-bronzer for that glowing , outdoor , tanned look we all know and simulate . |
| 14 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 15 | I 'd been asking Peggy to get something like that for ages . |
| 16 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd been studying Fitzgerald , reading , seeing the film and the television series and thinking all along what a wonderful life he 'd led in the South of France … ’ |
| 19 | I 'd been working flat out . |
| 20 | But I 'd been working nights to live on . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 25 | Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors . |
| 26 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 27 | Because I had been understudying Constance Donovan I was now to play Lydia , the second lead . |
| 28 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 29 | As I had been enjoying Marlborough , which in atmosphere , personnel , and not least location , was in total contrast to the Sloane School , Chelsea , I no doubt gave him a slightly rose-tinted account of the life there . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |