Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 2 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 4 | Well I mean I do n't , well I 've never I think 's holding that hat on . |
| 5 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 6 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 7 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 8 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 9 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 10 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 11 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 12 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 13 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 14 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 15 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 16 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 17 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 18 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 19 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 20 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 21 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 22 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 23 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 24 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 25 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been calling all afternoon , ’ he told her , ‘ There 's a faculty dinner . |
| 27 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 28 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 29 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 30 | 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 . |