Example sentences of "[noun] i have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 2 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 3 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 4 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 5 | ‘ The difficulty I have is proving it . ’ |
| 6 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 7 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 8 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 9 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
| 11 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
| 12 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 13 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 14 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 15 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 16 | The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds … |
| 17 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 18 | Erm , yeah she is , but she 's doing , you know these calls I 've been receiving . |
| 19 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 20 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 22 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 23 | All that expensive coaching I 've been having , and yet I 'm still no match for you . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe you really do have that fast , incisive mind I 've been hearing so much about lately ? ’ |
| 25 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 26 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 27 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 28 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 29 | I think I needed a break I have been pushing really hard and was more tired than I was prepared to admit , ’ he says . |
| 30 | 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 . |