Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’ |
| 2 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 3 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why do you think I 've been avoiding you today ? |
| 5 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why the hell do you think I 've been holed up here since yesterday ? |
| 7 | What do you think I 've been doing ! |
| 8 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 9 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 10 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 11 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 12 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 13 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 14 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 15 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 16 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 17 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 18 | And she 's saying , what the heck are doing outside the cinema , he goes I 've been invited to come with you you lot . |
| 19 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 20 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 21 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 22 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 23 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 24 | That 's right yes , as I say I 've been left back and I won very comfortable , but in the middle I 'm a lot more comfortable . |
| 25 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 26 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 27 | If I do that , the Company does n't have to know I 've been interfacing data when I should n't . |
| 28 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 29 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 30 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |