Example sentences of "a [noun] i have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 2 | Ever since it was revealed that Grant has a boat I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us . |
| 3 | I think I needed a break I have been pushing really hard and was more tired than I was prepared to admit , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 5 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 6 | I had a question I had been intending to ask him . |
| 7 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 8 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 9 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 10 | For a while I had been ringing the Lost Property office at Queen Street station each week , still pathetically hoping that the bag with Uncle Rory 's poems and Darren Watt 's Möbius scarf would somehow miraculously turn up again . |
| 11 | For more than a decade I have been running workshops for Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) students at the University of London , first at the Institute of Education and later at Chelsea College and King 's College . |
| 12 | It is a game I have been looking forward to for some time . |
| 13 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |
| 14 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 15 | I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend . |
| 16 | ‘ In the letter , Tristram said ‘ I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend ’ . |