Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 2 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 3 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 4 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 7 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 8 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 9 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 10 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 11 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 12 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 13 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 14 | Although I have to confess I 've already been working on it . |
| 15 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
| 16 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
| 18 | By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December/early January . |
| 19 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 20 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
| 21 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 22 | I 've just been thinking about you . " |
| 23 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
| 24 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 25 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
| 28 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |
| 29 | I 've just been shopping with Maggie this morning . |
| 30 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |