Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have be [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 2 | Right , now , the next item is the press and we have a press officer , yeah , like to , perhaps say what 's been happening a little bit and , and you know talk about the next time . |
| 3 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
| 4 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 5 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 6 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 7 | I do n't believe he 's been carrying a huge old-fashioned thing like that around ever since he left . |
| 8 | And you know I 've been sitting an hour . |
| 9 | If yer really want ter know I 've been courtin' a widow for some time an' we 're thinkin' of settlin' down tergether , ’ he replied . |
| 10 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 11 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 12 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 13 | I suppose I 've been making a fool of myself . |
| 14 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 15 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 16 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |
| 17 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |
| 18 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |
| 19 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 20 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 21 | My local bank manager said that means she 'd been renting a deposit box . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think this man was a cousin at all , indeed , I think you 've been harbouring a criminal from jail . ’ |
| 23 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 24 | But er she said she 'd been feeling a bit rough recently . |
| 25 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 26 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 27 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |