Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 2 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 3 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 4 | I eventually got a chance to read the South Wales Aggregates Working Party 's Regional Commentary which has been sitting on my desk for months . |
| 5 | Yes , and certainly people who live inside it , because the book 's been sitting on my desk all week and I can see it 's been opened at places where people are either living or they know people living . |
| 6 | I 've been concentrating on my technique , so soon I could try working straight on to the plate . |
| 7 | ‘ Since the turn of the year — and not before ! — I 've been concentrating on my retirement , while my wife Irene continues part-time mid-wifery , ’ says Bob . |
| 8 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |