Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been thinking today of the time I took Piers and Antoinette to meet him . |
| 2 | I 've been doing most of my cooking with the |
| 3 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have been going out of my mind thinking about you . ’ |
| 6 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 7 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been keeping out of my way all morning . ’ |
| 9 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 10 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 11 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 12 | He looks wonderful ; prison has fattened him and his cheeks are pink and shiny , as though he has been working out of doors . |
| 13 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 14 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |
| 15 | He seemed almost normal again ; he had been staring out of the window and had commented on a street name he remembered from his London period . |
| 16 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |