Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 2 | And went on telling him odiously about me ( one Saturday morning shopping in the Village ) and I did n't know where to look , although I 'd been wanting to meet him . |
| 3 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been trying to see as little as possible of him towards the end of term . |
| 5 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 6 | I knew I 'd overdone the garlic in the Rogan Josh because I 'd been trying to impress Zaria . |
| 7 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 8 | I suddenly remembered I 'd been intending to call Connors in any case . |
| 9 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 10 | Up to now the routes I 'd been climbing had hidden themselves in gullies or grooves . |
| 11 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 12 | I 'd been meaning to do it for days and I keep asking myself whether it was my fault her killer got in . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd been having to dig my nails into the palm of my hand very hard in order to stop the tears streaming , which I could n't let happen as I was to speak next and needed to keep steady . |
| 14 | I had telephoned various nursing homes in the vicinity whose staff would , I thought , be more conversant with these vagaries of conduct , but they were all full up and I 'd been starting to feel desperate . |
| 15 | North British duly obliged with the Birmingham-Glasgow on the Saturday , but dawn till dusk vigils did not produce the procession of A1 's , A2 's , A3 's and A4 's I had been hoping to see . |
| 16 | The small government flat I had been expecting turned out instead to be a large if simple village haveli , occupied by Mr Postman 's extended family — his three brothers , their children and Mr Postman 's old mother . |
| 17 | I had a question I had been intending to ask him . |
| 18 | I had been intending to return there to visit again the marvellous art galleries , in particular to see the Whistlers and the oriental art in the Freer Gallery . |
| 19 | The latter I had been intending to read for years and , by happenstance , had come across a cheap edition in a book sale just days before setting out . |
| 20 | I had been trying to negotiate the Friday lunch-time run , which was the most lucrative , office-party wise , as ER was always on the lookout for reliable drivers who could not only deliver their people but hang around and pick them up . |
| 21 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 22 | Ever since the happy visit of the year before , I had been trying to persuade him to pay a second and , if possible , longer visit . |
| 23 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 24 | We began by talking about food , but food quickly became boring and was replaced by feelings , the things I had been trying to stuff down with food . |
| 25 | ‘ In terms of ideas , I had been trying to produce pictures at that time which had a very flat , two-dimensional feel to them , being torn between what I think are two different ends of photography , but which both have that quality . |
| 26 | I had been trying to produce in Jimbo the necessary mental awareness that the real cure — the reopening of the nerve pathways — lay in the end with him . |
| 27 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 28 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 29 | Eventually , I found out about the Dog Welfare and Rescue Society in Stokenchurch and spoke to the kennel manager who said just what I had been longing to hear . |
| 30 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |