Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] been [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just been showing the insurance gentleman where the bells are kept , Mr Caretaker . |
| 5 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 6 | She rolled her shirt-sleeves and crouched on the platform shouting back , above the noise of the engine and Marley , ‘ I 've just been checking the records . |
| 7 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 8 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 9 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 10 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 11 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 12 | I have also been exploring the Bit Knitter and the range of design options offered by Deluxe Paint , which is a very powerful graphics package . |
| 13 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 14 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 15 | I have therefore been considering the case for taking the initiative and disclosing details of the Committee structure . |
| 16 | Alternately alarmed and exalted by Barry Fox 's reports of the progress of CD ( we who are in the know call it that ) I have therefore been following the advertisements of equipment to play CD records . |