Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’ |
| 3 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 4 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why do you think I 've been avoiding you today ? |
| 6 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 7 | What do you think I 've been doing ! |
| 8 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 9 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 10 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 11 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 13 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 14 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 15 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 19 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 20 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 23 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 24 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 25 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 28 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 29 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 30 | If I do that , the Company does n't have to know I 've been interfacing data when I should n't . |