Example sentences of "[conj] i have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 2 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 3 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 4 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
| 5 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 6 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 7 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 8 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 9 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 10 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 11 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 12 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 14 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 15 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 16 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 17 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 20 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 21 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 22 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 23 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 24 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 25 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 26 | The chairs were designed to complement the table and represent one set of variations on a chair design that I have been experimenting with for years . |
| 27 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 28 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 29 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 30 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |