Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 2 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 3 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 4 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 5 | The company says it has been previewing the new X-stations for three weeks and has already taken orders for over 2,300 units . |
| 6 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 7 | At least one assumed he had been watching the sky , there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering . |
| 8 | Virginia realised she 'd been gripping the steering-wheel unnecessarily tightly and consciously relaxed , forcing a laugh and wincing as the vibration worsened her headache . |
| 9 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 11 | We know who 's been supplying the drugs to them . |
| 12 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 13 | I reckon you 've been having the report daddy , then we can . . |
| 14 | I 've been keeping my eye on her for a while , but it seems she 'd been returning the favour without my being aware of it . ’ |
| 15 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 16 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 17 | Most Saturdays , assuming he has been working the night before , Young is up by 10 am for breakfast with his wife and three children : two teenage boys and Hannah Harley , four , named after his beloved motorbike . |
| 18 | At that time , and erm she had n't known anything about it , because he had looked after the benefit , and she thought he 'd been paying the rent . |
| 19 | It is not difficult to see what has been keeping the ASH office busy over the past three months . |
| 20 | Said I 've been sorting the notes out , I 've put them in order back in , so that when he comes to the window all that the office staff got ta do is look through , like we was told to do |
| 21 | Mrs Taylor said she had been urging the Government for months to make public a report by Mr Ponsford confirming the morale problems . |
| 22 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 23 | On Wednesday County Coun. Colin Grant , who represents the Catterick area , said he had been alerting the Army , parish councils and schools to the apparent threat of about 140 additional lorry movements one every four minutes for a ten-hour day through the garrison . |
| 24 | Mr Beacham said he has been pressing the British Legion to put Stephen 's name on the role of honour . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 26 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 27 | Amiss suspected they had been hammering the port harder than ever the previous night . |
| 28 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |