Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 3 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 4 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 5 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 6 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 7 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'd been waiting for her , too ! |
| 9 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 10 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 11 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 12 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 13 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 14 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 15 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 16 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 17 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 18 | As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 . |
| 19 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 20 | I 've been listening to you ringing the bell . " |
| 21 | I 'll tell you what it is — it 's only bogland and I should know for I 've been lookin' at them fields for years . ’ |
| 22 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 23 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 24 | I 've been reading about them . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 26 | I 've been reading about you . |
| 27 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it all the way back from your cottage and I believe I 've got just a tiny little bit of an idea . ’ |
| 29 | I 've been thinking about it , and nothing better suggests itself . |
| 30 | I 've been thinking about it . |