Example sentences of "thing i have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We began by talking about food , but food quickly became boring and was replaced by feelings , the things I had been trying to stuff down with food . |
| 2 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 3 | I said oh I 'm not gon na give you my telephone number after the things I 've been hearing about you ! |
| 4 | For example , one of the things I 've been doing today is submitting titles for Waterstones ’ summer reading promotion ; they are sponsoring a 32 page supplement in Elle , and are doing a run-on . |
| 5 | ‘ So do I ; it 's one of the things I 've been missing about Australia — that and the sun . ’ |
| 6 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 7 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 9 | ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose . |
| 10 | er on , and I 'll tell you another thing I 've been taking . |
| 11 | For example own ( I am my own master ) or ( the ) very ( That 's the very thing I 've been looking for ! ) . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 13 | That is the very thing I had been wishing for — someone to recommend me . |
| 14 | ‘ Because you 're a landlord , I suppose , ’ I said , holding back the next thing I had been going to say and then deciding he might not mind . |
| 15 | To me it meant that your involvement with Jones went deeper than the superficial thing I 'd been imagining . |
| 16 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |