Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [art] " 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 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 4 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 5 | 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 " |
| 6 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 7 | The company says it has been previewing the new X-stations for three weeks and has already taken orders for over 2,300 units . |
| 8 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | I do n't believe he 's been carrying a huge old-fashioned thing like that around ever since he left . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | And you know I 've been sitting an hour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As you know I have been meeting every two weeks with all the staff in the Economic Development Team , and discussing with them each stage of the process . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 22 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 23 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 24 | I suppose I 've been making a fool of myself . |
| 25 | I reckon you 've been having the report daddy , then we can . . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 29 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 30 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |