Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 2 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 3 | And in a way er and this is a story I think is gon na develop over the next six months or a year . |
| 4 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 5 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 6 | ‘ The difficulty I have is proving it . ’ |
| 7 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 8 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
| 10 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
| 11 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 12 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 13 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 14 | The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds … |
| 15 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
| 16 | All that expensive coaching I 've been having , and yet I 'm still no match for you . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe you really do have that fast , incisive mind I 've been hearing so much about lately ? ’ |
| 18 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 19 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 20 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 21 | I think I needed a break I have been pushing really hard and was more tired than I was prepared to admit , ’ he says . |
| 22 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 23 | But all the way through this chapter I have been asserting just the contrary . |
| 24 | So far in this chapter I have been gathering together pieces of analysis . |
| 25 | Ever since it was revealed that Grant has a boat I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us . |
| 26 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 27 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 28 | Well I 'm hoping that , that tape I 've been using when I go to Ian and Shaun 's , that er the noise of Rangers does nay it ma goes too loud , you know . |
| 29 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 30 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |