Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The truth is , I 've simply been trying not to step on Merry 's toes . |
2 | Ha , I 've just been looking around |
3 | I 've just been filling in my books and reading all about it . |
4 | I 've , I 've just been reading here some books that I 've got upstairs , and stuff , and I I I went to see one of erm Shakespeare 's erm , I went to see a Midnight Summer 's Dream |
5 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
6 | ‘ I 've also been sorting out the dates for the let shoots . |
7 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
8 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |
9 | I 've really been feeling very very low . |
10 | Yeah I 've still been working though . |
11 | I 've only been standin' 'ere twenty minutes , 'aven' I ? |
12 | ‘ Then perhaps you should take what I have just been saying even more seriously . |
13 | I believe I have unconsciously been picking up modern reformed attitudes to nature from television wildlife programmes . |
14 | I have latterly been speaking only of causal circumstances , and not causes . |
15 | Funny enough , Peter and I have both been swimming together and we 've both got the same thing |
16 | The first , about which I have mainly been talking so far , is the generality , or potential for generality , of things in the world . |