Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 2 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 3 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 4 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 5 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 6 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 11 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 12 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 13 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 14 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 15 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 16 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 17 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 18 | I had been washing all his hand . |
| 19 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 20 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 21 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 22 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 23 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 24 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 25 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 26 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 27 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 29 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 30 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |