Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [v-ing] that " 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 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 5 | Well I mean I do n't , well I 've never I think 's holding that hat on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 8 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been learning that . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |
| 13 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 14 | Must get one a microwave if Debbie comes home I think , I 'll see , I 've been saying that but I was thinking if , I 'll have to wait and see Debbie |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been admiring that . ’ |
| 16 | They 're Spanish , oh I 've been admiring that tonight |
| 17 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been doing that , ’ he grumbled , but returned obediently to his task . |
| 19 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 20 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 22 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 23 | I 've been doing that . |
| 24 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 25 | I 've been doing that today as well . |
| 26 | I 've been requesting that small courtesy for weeks ! |
| 27 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 28 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 29 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , yer do n't mean you 'ave been doin' that , do yer ? ’ |