Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] [noun] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd been drinking scrumpy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 11 | I 'd been asking Peggy to get something like that for ages . |
| 12 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 … ’ |
| 15 | I 'd been working flat out . |
| 16 | But I 'd been working nights to live on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 21 | Because I had been understudying Constance Donovan I was now to play Lydia , the second lead . |
| 22 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the lead-up to the trip I had been telling Nat about the Northern Lights and how wonderful they were . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I had been reading Tales from the Iliad . |
| 29 | During my travels round Ireland , I had been reading Sleeman 's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Magistrate . |
| 30 | 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 . |