Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] 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 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |
| 7 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 8 | Because , you know , I 'd never been skiing before , so I went out all togged up , with like , my tights sort of , like , you know , thermal tights and you know , pair of track suits , sort of bottoms , plus plastic overtop and then I had like , sort of thermal top on , plus the that 's a sort of like , T-shirt , plus the polo-neck plus a jumper , plus a sort of like erm , a sort of sheepskin waistcoat and , and jacket and then this plastic thing over the top . |
| 9 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 10 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |
| 11 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 12 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 13 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 14 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 15 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 16 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 17 | I had also been having problems with my gut . |
| 18 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 19 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 20 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 21 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 24 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 25 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 28 | I had secretly been hoping to see my colleague tortured a little . |
| 29 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 30 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |