Example sentences of "i have [been] [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 2 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 4 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 5 | But I 'd been working nights to live on . |
| 6 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 7 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 8 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 9 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 10 | I had been reading Tales from the Iliad . |
| 11 | For the past week I had been learning lines in preparation for an appearance in a new play due to start rehearsing later that month , and I loathed interruptions . |
| 12 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 13 | He said yesterday : ‘ I 'm sure I had been making inquiries ( in 1945 ) about what would happen to people who we sent back . |
| 14 | I had been visiting houses and gardens that were open for the day to the public . |
| 15 | I had been visiting villages to the north of the parish . |
| 16 | ‘ I had been visiting hospitals every week for 37 years but you get a different perspective after something like this . |
| 17 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 18 | I 've been organising classes … ’ |
| 19 | I 've been buying bars and bars of that see . |
| 20 | Yes there is I 've been , yeah I 've been I 've been buying shares er Excon shares in a share p er a share purchase |
| 21 | At last , seeing the impatient glint in his eyes , she drew a long breath and said , ‘ I 've been thinking things over — thinking very deeply — and I 've come to the conclusion that your idea of merging our two practices is , after all , the most sensible solution to our problem . ’ |
| 22 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 23 | I 've been getting attacks of giddiness and I 'm not sleeping well . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 25 | And er , I 've been learning flats and sharps and all that . |
| 26 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 28 | I feel a lot more at ease since I 've been using prostitutes . |
| 29 | I 've been drinking vodkas all night . |
| 30 | Tell me what you 've been doing , while I 've been moving mountains . ’ |