Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] i [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you what it is — it 's only bogland and I should know for I 've been lookin' at them fields for years . ’ |
| 3 | At least I could have moved if I had been standing . |
| 4 | I said er I I imagine cos I 've been visiting his wife you see . |
| 5 | ‘ On this new album there 's one huge track called The Lighthouse , which a lot of people have heard because I 've been playing it on stage — an hour out of two and a half is this album . |
| 6 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 7 | He told the crowd : ‘ It seems like I 've been playing here forever — and you 've been watching me forever . |
| 8 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 9 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 10 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 11 | I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 13 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 14 | This has happened when I have been catching plenty of barbel , with no breakages , and the matchmen have asked me what I have been using . |
| 15 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 16 | Whyte ( 1955 ) agrees : ‘ As I sat and listened , I learned the answers to questions I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been getting my information solely on an interviewing basis . ’ |