Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met at lunch , once , and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls . |
| 2 | Agnes pulled herself up straighter in the chair and , looking into the broad face , she said , ‘ Your son has been seeing my sister clandestinely . ’ |
| 3 | It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days . |
| 4 | Somebody has been spraying my aftershave . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 6 | I 'd been hoping my daughter would be brought to see me at Holloway and was frightened of her turning up and finding me not there . |
| 7 | He sounded as though he 'd been expecting my call . |
| 8 | Till the knock on the door — two investigators said they 'd been watching my house and he was living with me . |
| 9 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 10 | If I 'd been carrying my gun I 'd have pulled it . |
| 11 | Accused of being insolent , the private may say : ‘ No I was n't , sergeant , I was just saying I 'd been cleaning my boots . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd have been wasting my breath , Julia . |
| 13 | Aunt Lyallie must have been needling my mother while I was away , because one day she suddenly asked me , with tremulous anxiety : ‘ Why do n't you get married , Jim ? |
| 14 | According to my reckoning , I should have been giving my full and entire concentration to the final chapter of my work — a time when I would not , as Milada Pankracova knew , want any interruptions . |
| 15 | His tone of voice was so bland that he might as well have been asking my opinion of Wavebreaker 's sea-keeping qualities . |
| 16 | She could just as well have been arranging my funeral for all the co-operation I offered her . |
| 17 | All the while I had been telling my young passenger what I was going to do . |
| 18 | I had been using my travelling battery shaver while house-sitting and despite what Victor Kiam says , nothing beats hot water and cold steel . |
| 19 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 20 | He had been causing my friend a great deal of trouble , so , to shut him up , he had you make an implant of the man committing a murder . |
| 21 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 22 | Whyte ( 1955 ) agrees : ‘ As I sat and listened , I learned the answers to questions I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been getting my information solely on an interviewing basis . ’ |
| 23 | A neighbour 's child had been breaking my constituent 's windows , hurling abusive language and stealing property at will . |
| 24 | I had no need to give him twenty Thousand Pound to marry me , which had been buying my Lodging too dear a great deal . ’ |
| 25 | Damien the mute had been watching my master 's lips intently . |
| 26 | I had been doing my best to mime the odd prayer since my dad died , but I had a feeling she saw through me . |
| 27 | A : After appearing on TV , I was contacted by Terry Moseley who had been following my story since Kelly was killed , and Jeanette Thompson , whose child had been attacked by her own dog . |
| 28 | I tried to get him to return my smile , to confess that he had been pulling my leg ; but his brooding face was drained of humour . |
| 29 | We used the same old path , and I was amazed to realise that without knowing it I had been hurrying my children along and constantly looking over my shoulder . |
| 30 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |