Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Not one of them has been stolen since the seed was sown . |
| 2 | I 'd been drawing since I was tiny — my grandfather is a very good artist , although he specialises in landscapes , and he 'd helped me enormously from the beginning . |
| 3 | I 'd been wondering whether anybody had noticed my presence at all . |
| 4 | And I 'd been wondering whether like I could perhaps persuade him or his boss , the professor to come along and talk to us , and let , some of their time is very full , and to them time is money . |
| 5 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 6 | I 'd been working since early morn , |
| 7 | A family I knew were devastated when the thirty-five-year-old mother died after a short illness . |
| 8 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 9 | ‘ By 1988 I was updating the book I had been writing when I met Diana . |
| 10 | I had been lost because I loved him . |
| 11 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |
| 12 | Two years before I had been diagnosed as suffering from ALS , commonly known as Lou Gehrig 's disease , or motor neuron disease , and given to understand that I had only one or two more years to live . |
| 13 | What I had been fighting for for all these years — the right for gay people to live their lives openly with dignity and respect — was actually happening , and in the most unlikely of places . |
| 14 | ‘ I had been wondering whether you 'd change your mind and live here permanently . ’ |
| 15 | I had been wondering if she was well and there she was , bouncing with energy , shining-eyed , rosy-cheeked and beautiful . |
| 16 | Various episodes in his life end in cliff-hangers , a la Neighbours and Dallas , and often I 've been asked whether a certain story line has advanced any further . |
| 17 | , I 've been smoking since I wa twe , since I 've been twelve and I just canna stop and I think it 's disgusting ! |
| 18 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
| 19 | Well I 'm hoping that , that tape I 've been using when I go to Ian and Shaun 's , that er the noise of Rangers does nay it ma goes too loud , you know . |
| 20 | No one wants to know how my character study of Mark Antony 's going , whether I 've vacuumed under my bed , what videos I 've been watching while they were out , how many lengths I 've swum without a break , whether I 'm telling the truth or lies . |
| 21 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 22 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 23 | I 've been a professional writer for 30 years now and I 've been slaughtered before so one can only bow ! ( laughs ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Oh he 's in hospital , I did n't know a thing about it , I 've been saying when we 've been to the Pentam , we have n't seen Trevor for a while , we have n't seen Trevor , and even Barry at the Pentam did n't tell me , he thought I knew |
| 27 | I 've been painting since I was old enough to pick up a brush . |
| 28 | I 've been told since , I was told yesterday |
| 29 | I 've been told when I do get settled into my new home , maybe that I 'll be able to have Darren home once a month . |
| 30 | I know I 'm too thin , I do n't like what I look like and I 've been told if I lose any more weight I 'll have to give up work and be admitted to hospital . |