Example sentences of "i have [been] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 2 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 3 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 4 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 5 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And because I 'd been speaking slowly , my lip patterns were distorted . |
| 7 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
| 8 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 9 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 10 | Ever since we 'd moved to Cornwall I 'd been reading more and more about birds of prey , and by this time I was pretty sure that falconry was the ideal career for me . |
| 11 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 12 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 13 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 14 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 15 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 17 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 18 | If I 'd been standing here fifteen years ago I 'd have been run over by now because there were four lanes of traffic running around here . |
| 19 | I had been drinking before . |
| 20 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 21 | In Doncaster over Christmas , I had been thinking constantly about criticizing the Government . |
| 22 | I had been thinking quickly . |
| 23 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 24 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 25 | To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely . |
| 26 | I had been looking forward to going to what I called ‘ big school ’ . |
| 27 | I am disappointed that none of those hon. Members is in his place , because I had been looking forward to their contributions and should have liked to address the odd remark to them , but I shall do that in any event . |
| 28 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 29 | ‘ I had been playing well since I returned from America , but the putts have just not dropped . |
| 30 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |