Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 2 | Although I have to confess I 've already been working on it . |
| 3 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 4 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
| 5 | Well I 've been very good I 've not been phoning anybody else |
| 6 | I 've not been sleeping well since the house was ransacked , and it 's made me very edgy . |
| 7 | I 'm very much aware I 've not been saying my name each time I 've been speaking but probably too late now . |
| 8 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 9 | Well she phoned and umm asked how Oliver was and everything and just said oh how are you and I said oh I 've not been feeling very well over the weekend . |
| 10 | ‘ The truth is , I 've simply been trying not to step on Merry 's toes . |
| 11 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 13 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 14 | Ha , I 've just been looking around |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 've just been taping loads , four . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 19 | I 've just been filling in my books and reading all about it . |
| 20 | I 've just been borrowing you . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | I 've just been watching all that Fields , that chap Fields . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
| 29 | ‘ What an interesting coincidence or , in view of what I 've just been learning , perhaps not all that much of a coincidence . |
| 30 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |