Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in a way er and this is a story I think is gon na develop over the next six months or a year . |
| 2 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 3 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 4 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 5 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
| 6 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 7 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 8 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 9 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 10 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 11 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 12 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 13 | The sun I had been dreaming of was dark , and the real sun was nothing : nothing but what it was . |
| 14 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 15 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 16 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 19 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 20 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've a rather special wine I 've been saving for you to sample , Naylor , ’ Guthrie addressed his nephew as they began to tuck into a starter of scampi in flaky pastry . |
| 22 | And this ’ — he spread an arm out — ‘ is the amateur group I 've been supporting over the past years . ’ |
| 23 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 24 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 25 | like Alligator Gun for example I know is coming to the , to the Kings up the road here quite soon and then it 's going to Glasgow later on , and I keep thinking every time this sort of thing , thing 's happening I keep thinking we could be dealing with these |
| 26 | This week I 've been concentrating on the serious matter of the winter wardrobe . |
| 27 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 28 | Look , I 'm furious , I can barely contain my rage , every gram of flesh I have is quivering with anger . |
| 29 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |
| 30 | The comment I have been quoting from appeared in 1965 . |