Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 2 | You bolt on the tail and wings you 've been towing behind on a trailer , flip a couple of switches on the dashboard , and then find a strip of flat land to take off from . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect she 's been sitting too long in the sun , ’ she said . |
| 4 | She was fleetingly reminded of Shildon insisting they walked singly into the newsroom so no one should know they had been talking together . |
| 5 | Friends say they had been looking forward to the holiday for months . |
| 6 | ‘ They all live in the Sydenham , Inverary Park , Holywood Road , and Garnerville area and say they have been feeling very unwell . |
| 7 | She would recognise him when he made his approach , would know he had been behaving deviously but he would be straight into devious matters anyway . |
| 8 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 12 | Penang 's chief minister , Koh Tsu Koon , is so intent on his high-tech strategy that he says he has been turning away unsuitable investors . |
| 13 | UK Defence Research Agency 's Ten15 Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology will also be incorporated : UI says it has been working closely with DRA for the last six months on proposals . |
| 14 | AMD says it has been working hard to improve the robustness of its chip designs . |
| 15 | ‘ Ever since we met you 've been acting quite out of character . ’ |
| 16 | She said yeah I 'll be alright , but I could see she 'd been crying earlier on in the evening , she said you always feel as if you 're |
| 17 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 18 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 19 | Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ? |
| 20 | ‘ In the meantime we 've still got a couple of days left , and I 'd better start getting my act together , or my replacement is going to wonder what sort of service we 've been running here ! |
| 21 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 22 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 23 | ‘ I know she 's been working very hard for you . |
| 24 | but he , he , I mean we 've not seen him he 's been away four years , I know he 's been coming home first , for holidays , visit , but he 's not been at home because , well we moved into that house , if you remember we moved |
| 25 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
| 26 | Foster said : ‘ It 's a surprise because I am fully aware that I have not taken many wickets , although I also feel I have been bowling well . |
| 27 | I suppose you 've been whistling today |
| 28 | After six years of marriage , however , Adrienne finds she has been strolling unwittingly through a psychological jungle . |
| 29 | I understand you 've been socializing quite a lot with the Italians over the last twenty four hours or so . |
| 30 | For those who love Churchill partly because of his warts and feel they have been waiting too long to hear the case for the prosecution put eloquently and with impeccable soundness , ‘ it is a delight ’ . ’ |