Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 2 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 3 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 4 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 5 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 6 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |
| 7 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 8 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 9 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 10 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 11 | I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 13 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 15 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 16 | Ha , I 've just been looking around |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
| 18 | By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December/early January . |
| 19 | I 've just been taping loads , four . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 21 | I 've just been filling in my books and reading all about it . |
| 22 | I 've just been borrowing you . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | I 've just been watching all that Fields , that chap Fields . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 27 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 29 | Though , ever a man to confuse her , he greeted her pleasantly , ‘ Good morning , darling , ’ and , in case she had n't got the message that the endearment was only on account of their audience , ‘ I 've just been telling my uncle that we 'll be leaving after breakfast . ’ |
| 30 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |