Example sentences of "i have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 2 | I have been singing for his lordship of Leicester . |
| 3 | The officer I have been escorting is a most pleasant chap , and I have really had a day 's holiday . |
| 4 | I have been taking Woodworker now for some 10 years and have at last been inspired to write a letter replying to that of David Thomas in the December issue . |
| 5 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 6 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 7 | My searches this month have followed exactly the same lines as those of last month ; that is to say , I have been venturing into areas possessing no known or recorded activity . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been moving my portable clinic from one place to another , but now I like it here . |
| 9 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 10 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 11 | I would try and tell you what I have been thinking ; though I once told you I cried because I was incapable of thought … . |
| 12 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 13 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 14 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
| 15 | ‘ I have been thinking , ’ said Marian , ‘ there are not enough of them . |
| 16 | ‘ For some time now I have been thinking I should marry again . |
| 17 | Later I have been thinking over what Dad said . |
| 18 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
| 19 | Wilkinson admitted : ‘ I am keeping all my options open and I have been thinking about whether I should play Rocastle . |
| 20 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 21 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 22 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 23 | ‘ I have been thinking . |
| 24 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 25 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 26 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
| 27 | Message : I have been thinking about your suggestion that we do not charge for ABI when we re-launch on 21st July . |
| 28 | ‘ But I have been thinking about taking a course , ’ she said . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been thinking , ’ said Zeinab , laying down her brush . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been thinking over your suggestion the other day . |