Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 32 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 33 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
| 34 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 35 | It had got considerably thicker while I 'd been eating . |
| 36 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 37 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 38 | It was body language I 'd been counting on to win her round . |
| 39 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 40 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 41 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 42 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 43 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 44 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 45 | To me it meant that your involvement with Jones went deeper than the superficial thing I 'd been imagining . |
| 46 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 47 | ‘ 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 . |
| 48 | I 'd been drinking scrumpy . |
| 49 | ‘ I 'd been drinking . |
| 50 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 51 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 52 | And went on telling him odiously about me ( one Saturday morning shopping in the Village ) and I did n't know where to look , although I 'd been wanting to meet him . |
| 53 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 54 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 55 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 56 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 57 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 58 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 59 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 60 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |