Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 2 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 3 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 4 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 5 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 6 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 7 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 8 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 9 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 10 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 11 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 12 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 13 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 14 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 15 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 16 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 17 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 18 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 19 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 20 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
| 21 | Marcus appeared in next-door 's back garden which surprised me as last I knew he 'd been snoring under the duvet . |
| 22 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 23 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 24 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 25 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 26 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 27 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 28 | Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week . |
| 29 | Erm , oh I have got something else , which is music , erm , at the last meeting I said I 've been talking to Simon from the Queen 's Hall , about the idea of doing pre-concert notes |
| 30 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |