Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 5 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 6 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 7 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 8 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 9 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 12 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 13 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 14 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 15 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 16 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 17 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 18 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 19 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 20 | About a fortnight before that , and ten days after the night at the prison , I had been passing along the road , with my arm through Martinho 's , when I had cause to do a double-take on a group of beggars by the roadside . |
| 21 | On the boat , I had been reading about the shooting of Fergal Caraher at the South Armagh checkpoint at Cullyhanna and now , in the darkness , as details of the story flooded back , I decided against pressing the buzzer . |
| 22 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 23 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 24 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 25 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 28 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |
| 29 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 30 | I had been shooting in the lonely hills in the north of England . |