Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 2 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 3 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 4 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 5 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
| 6 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 7 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 8 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
| 9 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 10 | if we do n't work on the strategy that I 've been suggesting |
| 11 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 12 | With an instant return to sweet reasonableness , Andrée said , ‘ Admitted that I 've been trying to seduce you , does n't that only go to show how desperate I am to get my way ? |
| 13 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 14 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
| 15 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 16 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 17 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 18 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 19 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 20 | Do you realise , that I 've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy ? |
| 21 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 22 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 23 | Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you . |
| 24 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 25 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 26 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 27 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 28 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 29 | I did n't tell your mum that I 'd got it on you see she said now all that I 've been saying ! |
| 30 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |