Example sentences of "i [verb] be [v-ing] [det] [noun] " 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 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 5 | Well I mean I do n't , well I 've never I think 's holding that hat on . |
| 6 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 13 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 14 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 15 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 16 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 17 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 18 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 19 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 22 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 23 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 24 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 25 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 29 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |