Example sentences of "that i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 32 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 33 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |
| 34 | My pen that I 've been working . |
| 35 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 36 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 37 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 42 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 43 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 44 | ‘ 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 . |
| 45 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 46 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 47 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 48 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 52 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 53 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 54 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 55 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 56 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 57 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 58 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 59 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 60 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |