Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 2 | I 'd thought you 'd been getting exercise in . |
| 3 | The action seemed to break her train of thought , for afterwards she did not resume speaking , seemed to forget she had been speaking and sat waiting passively . |
| 4 | Ooh I ca n't stop yawning I 've been going into work a bit earlier lately |
| 5 | I 've been saying to her well you 'll have to wait she 's been saying her feet hurt , right ? |
| 6 | If I do that , the Company does n't have to know I 've been interfacing data when I should n't . |
| 7 | Mr Wildish said : ‘ I would n't have thought she had been sleeping rough . ’ |
| 8 | If she had n't known better she 'd have thought he 'd been drinking . |
| 9 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a surprise because I 'm aware I have n't taken many wickets this season , although I do feel I 've been bowling well . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm surprised because I 'm aware that I have n't taken many wickets this season , although I do feel I have been bowling well , ’ said Foster . |
| 12 | ‘ You mean to say we have been sitting here for an hour with a motorbike and sidecar parked outside ? ’ |
| 13 | You mean to say you 've been doing everything ? ’ gasped Breeze . |
| 14 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 15 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 16 | As you 've heard we 've been cutting costs pretty significantly over the last couple of years erm what we 're talking about is three thousand people having been er made redundant over the two and a half years and as we were saying earlier substantial redundancy costs have had to be borne . |
| 17 | Halfway through the letter , Bruno said in German : ‘ Ah , he is a major in their Army , ’ and then smiled hastily at Maxim because he had forgotten they had been speaking German earlier . |
| 18 | She did n't like the sound of the ‘ second skin' bit at all , and the way he had kidnapped her had been terrifying . |
| 19 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 20 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 21 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 22 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |
| 23 | But ever since you 've gone they 've been conspiring against me , plotting , and — ’ |
| 24 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 25 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 26 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 27 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |
| 28 | He said all right , you have admitted you 've been sleeping so out you go . |