Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 2 | Deng Xiaoping , China 's " elder statesman " leader , had considerable success during March in his effort to reinforce the reformist line which he had been actively promoting since early January . |
| 3 | For firmness of purpose , surely , can only be associated with the missionary attachment to first principles which he has been energetically abandoning . |
| 4 | Platt , England 's only goalscorer since March , was dramatically pulled out of a Juventus friendly on Wednesday night because of a knee injury , which he has been secretly carrying . |
| 5 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 6 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 7 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 8 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 9 | I 'd told her I 'd been away filming in Scotland that night . ’ |
| 10 | As it does so , individuals are able to become more conscious of the assumptions about personal worth and ‘ correct conduct ’ that they themselves had been tacitly making , and to see that an alternative personal philosophy could generate greater inner strength , and decrease their dependency on other people 's approval . |
| 11 | They went to the Goose Green home of a couple , with whom he had been out drinking , and after the couple went to bed Manning raped her . |
| 12 | She said , and a lot of the time , she said , he 's a , he 's a little sod , she said , but you know , she said , I mean , it 's not all bad things about him , and I said , I 've been hearing things about you from Miss , and she oh , what she 's been bloody saying , I bet she 's been saying I 'm crap at English . |