Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] i [verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 2 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 3 | I felt that perhaps here , at last , was the way into the treatment of genetic disorders for which I had been searching . |
| 4 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | classes of which I have been giving a history … a committee which labouring afterwards with Mr. Wilberforce as a parliamentary head did , under Providence , in the space of twenty years , contribute to put an end to a trade which … was the greatest practical evil that ever afflicted the human race . |
| 7 | Some of you I know are working but some now Roger are people of leisure and will therefore I hope er be able to find more space in their diaries to quaff the glass of er cheap wine and er raise it |
| 8 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 9 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 10 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 11 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 12 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 13 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 14 | ‘ Because if you force me to leave , what would I do about my wretched EC forms on milk yield with which I 've been wrestling ? |
| 15 | It fitted in with what I had been working out already . |
| 16 | Here is a possible list which fits in with what I have been saying earlier : |
| 17 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 18 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 19 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 20 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 21 | The works of Freud are full of warnings against the very danger which is described in the study from which I have been quoting . |
| 22 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 23 | Well I I actually must have read completely different to anybody else from what I 've been hearing , erm the way I looked at it , the situation that we have locally compared with what David was saying about the national erm what government are doing nationally and the situation we have here in Cambridge city . |
| 24 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 25 | My normal reaction would have been to attack back but I was too tired , so I said : " If I understood from what I have been saying what you obviously understand — then I would agree with you . " |
| 26 | The one to whom I had been speaking was shivering audibly . |
| 27 | Between the two , so to speak , in the organizational and cultural space between them , or the Third Area , come the psychic and political relations to which I have been pointing . |
| 28 | That is not to say that it is enough to do deliberate actions which , in fact , obstruct ; there must be an intention that those actions should result in the further state of affairs to which I have been referring . ’ |
| 29 | We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see . |
| 30 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |