Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 2 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 3 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 4 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Wildish said : ‘ I would n't have thought she had been sleeping rough . ’ |
| 6 | Byrne reckons they 've been playing brill recently and are just waiting for a chance like this — but he was talking before they got turned over 0–3 by the makems last night . |
| 7 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Rain said quickly , deducing she had been looking bored . |
| 8 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 9 | Seems we have been playing o.k though ! and have been unlucky ( same old story ) |
| 10 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 11 | Especially since we think she 's been running clear . |
| 12 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 13 | He said he 'd been feeling depressed . |
| 14 | ‘ I see you have been studying local history , Melissa , ’ he observed , indicating the book . |