Example sentences of "[noun sg] i have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this was the very cable I have formerly been trying to make without success . |
| 2 | Sir I 've just been recording you . |
| 3 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 4 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 5 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 6 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |