Example sentences of "i have [be] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 2 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 3 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 4 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 5 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 6 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 7 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 8 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 9 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 10 | On the boat , I had been reading about the shooting of Fergal Caraher at the South Armagh checkpoint at Cullyhanna and now , in the darkness , as details of the story flooded back , I decided against pressing the buzzer . |
| 11 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 12 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 13 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 14 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 15 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 16 | I 've been reading about you . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been reading about them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 20 | But I 've been thinking about next week . |
| 21 | I 've been thinking about what you said , that it 's very rare for a woman to feel as I do . |
| 22 | I 've been thinking about Sophie . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been thinking about you . ’ |
| 24 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been thinking about you . ’ |
| 26 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
| 27 | I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been thinking about doing something like that , ’ I said , more out of politeness than accuracy . |
| 29 | ‘ Listen , kiddo , I 've been thinking about this . |
| 30 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |