Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 2 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been given this beautiful little picture as well , ’ I said , and I smiled up at him . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been using this , but conserving the batteries as much as possible as they 're very low . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 10 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 11 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 14 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 15 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 16 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 17 | I 've been fighting this b |
| 18 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 19 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 20 | There can only be one outcome , the trade unions will retain their involvement in the Labour Party , I 've been saying this all along , as have others , during the course of the last year , the trouble is , nobody listens . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been working this way for 18 months now and I 'm really happy with how it 's going . |
| 22 | I 've been practising this mega dance routine . |
| 23 | Well I 've been practising this . |
| 24 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 26 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 28 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 29 | That 's right , I 've , I 've been through over the year 's I 've been doing this and they say , whether it 's because they know if the background at the er vets , the private vets there , you know I do n't know , but the information I get from them , that there 'd a , there not prepared to over . |
| 30 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |