Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this was the very cable I have formerly been trying to make without success . |
| 2 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 4 | In your do-it-yourself practice you have already been talking aloud to yourself . |
| 5 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 6 | Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it ! |
| 7 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |
| 8 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 9 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 10 | And his liquor you 've undoubtedly been consuming . ’ |
| 11 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 12 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
| 13 | and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners |
| 14 | This was the moment she 'd frankly been dreading . |
| 15 | What kind of community has it been , having lived here having had so many years in which you 've actually had I mean ei either lived here for forty years plus erm from many other years you 've actually been working here in addi in addition . |
| 16 | Yeah , but I mean you know , at the moment we 've not been pushing anything till |
| 17 | Suddenly , above the shouting , shots and noise of battle , the neighing of horses , creaking wheels and ringing harness , came the sound they had all been dreading : the thin , sharp crackle of ice giving way under strain . |
| 18 | It is a shocking scene , because it starts by involving the audience in its raw eroticism and then turns on them , so that they feel guilty for the stirrings they have inevitably been experiencing . |
| 19 | Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years . |
| 20 | Well when he gets in the right places he 's only been doing schools and you know ? |
| 21 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 22 | Computers are used in all walks of life , although so far in our series of programmes we 've largely been looking at scientific applications . |
| 23 | ‘ If we do n't hurry we 're likely to meet Florian and Nicky in the lift , and right this minute I do n't think I could bring myself to keep quiet about the things you 've just been saying . ’ |
| 24 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
| 25 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 26 | No it is n't , it is n't gon na away but when you go back to these figures we 've actually been working , if you wo if you accept that there 's been , there 's no change in our situation apart from auto-offs and units |
| 27 | I think , if we 're going to be realistic , there are practical dangers for that , that can put in danger erm some of the things we 've just been talking about . |
| 28 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |
| 29 | I heard some uncertain footsteps and he lurched on , waving a jug of orange juice , which was not the drink he had obviously been consuming in huge quantities . |
| 30 | For the past week she 'd literally been counting the days . |