Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
| 2 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 3 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 4 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 5 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
| 6 | Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes . |
| 7 | It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course . |
| 8 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 9 | A part of that obviously I think is going to be that there was an expected higher level of productivity than we 've actually achieved , cos you know in January I think in , in Christine 's area for example , to start off with I mean er er er productivity plummeted erm and it 's now , and she changed the system and , and one or two other things . |
| 10 | So I 've been biding my time . |
| 11 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 12 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 13 | so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe |
| 14 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
| 15 | What we 're really essentially interested in I think is keeping the sun which tends to be very strong from there |
| 16 | and literally I 've been working |
| 17 | ‘ All the way over I 've been trying to remember it . |
| 18 | He asked me about costs and what exactly I 'd been doing . |
| 19 | ‘ Lately I 've been getting a hankering to play country music again , so I 've got together with a friend and put together a fun band called Modern Farmer . |
| 20 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 21 | Lately I have been studying the paintings of an abstract expressionist named Diebenkorn . |
| 22 | Lately I have been studying the paintings of an abstract expressionist named Diebenkorn . |
| 23 | , until , until , until nine o'clock possibly I think is going to end . |
| 24 | I was shown round the building although there was a performance on by a very pleasant elderly doorman who 's not here any more I 've been coming ever since . |
| 25 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 26 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 27 | Also I 'd been crying . |
| 28 | If things had turned out differently I 'd been driving you down here . |
| 29 | Later I have been thinking over what Dad said . |
| 30 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |