Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] i have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
| 3 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
| 4 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 5 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 6 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 7 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 8 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 9 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 10 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 11 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 12 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Look , I 'm furious , I can barely contain my rage , every gram of flesh I have is quivering with anger . |
| 14 | You ca n't run with a baby , and I 'm not going to drag my kids into the sort of life I 've been living . |
| 15 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 16 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 17 | Let me tell you the sort of guys I 've been dealing with for years . ’ |
| 18 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 20 | ‘ So how do we avoid turning into those sort of pillocks I 've been talking about , Jim ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 22 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 23 | You know I 've never hated you — though for years I 've been wishing that I could ! ’ |
| 24 | I will concentrate , together with my wife , on areas I have been dealing in and know well , such as Expressionism , Viennese Art before 1914 , with Schiele and Klimt , history-making design and outstanding drawings and watercolours . |
| 25 | Ever since we 'd moved to Cornwall I 'd been reading more and more about birds of prey , and by this time I was pretty sure that falconry was the ideal career for me . |
| 26 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 27 | For miles I have been saying |