Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 2 | It was body language I 'd been counting on to win her round . |
| 3 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 4 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 5 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 6 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 7 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 10 | I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in . |
| 11 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 12 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 13 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 14 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 15 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 16 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 17 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been checking on you , Angel , ’ he started , quietly but firmly . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 22 | I 've been working on her image for some time now . |
| 23 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 24 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 25 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 26 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 27 | I knew those had been painted over ten years before , I said to him , ‘ Is this an old painting or a new painting ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , I 've been working on it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been working on the unionization of women in Kampur for several years now , ’ she said . |
| 30 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |