Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 2 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 3 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 4 | The validity of these tests , however , has been assessed by few and unconfirmed studies , in patients who were not taking NSAID , and direct comparison between them has been lacking . |
| 5 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 6 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 7 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 8 | He said , well you see I 've been smoking . |
| 9 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 10 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 11 | I rub my face quick so she do n't see I 've been crying . |
| 12 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 13 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 14 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 15 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 17 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 18 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 19 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 20 | I 'd been drawing since I was tiny — my grandfather is a very good artist , although he specialises in landscapes , and he 'd helped me enormously from the beginning . |
| 21 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 22 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 23 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 24 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 25 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 26 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 28 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 29 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 30 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |