Example sentences of "i [vb base] been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well it gives a schedule of housing conditions in Greater York erm and I 've been comparing in in turn that schedule with the schedule produced by the City Council on a more updated basis . |
| 4 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 6 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 7 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ Whoever it is , I 've been looking in your books and you have n't got your name in your books . |
| 9 | I 've been looking in there . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 11 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 12 | I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 13 | I 'm a geologist — that bit was true — and until recently I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 14 | I 've been working in our infirmary for quite a while now , that is , when I 'm not having my ordinary lessons . |
| 15 | There was a brief silence then Gerald spoke up : ‘ I 've seen the safe open several times since I 've been working in the business . |
| 16 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been working in my surgery , perhaps we could talk there . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been working in Cleveland , US for 4 months now , and am amazed that I get more up to date information on the week 's activities than when I lived outside London ! |
| 20 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 21 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 22 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 23 | I 've been backpacking in Europe , I love it there . |
| 24 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 25 | Sorry , I 've been laughing in the kitchen you see , that 's what it is ! |
| 26 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 27 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 28 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 29 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 30 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |