Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] i have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here is a possible list which fits in with what I have been saying earlier : |
| 6 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The works of Freud are full of warnings against the very danger which is described in the study from which I have been quoting . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |