Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 2 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 3 | Erm it seems to me that we 've been talking about capturing elephants but er is it really a Trojan horse ? |
| 4 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 5 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 6 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 7 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 8 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 9 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 10 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 11 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 12 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 13 | Call the Department of Environment 's air quality information line and a lady with a cheerful voice will most probably inform you that you have been breathing ‘ good ’ or ‘ very good ’ air for the previous 24 hours . |
| 14 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't spoken more than half a dozen words to your wife in the whole time you and I have been working together , ’ protested Matt . |
| 16 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |
| 17 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 18 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 19 | Mrs clean er tables for you when we 've been doing now you have to do it yourselves . |
| 20 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 21 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 22 | What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain |
| 23 | A lot of what has been said about make up has been very negative its to disguise or improve , its also an expression of er inner identity and its not something that 's new to the twentieth century , its something that we 've been doing you know since the beginning of time with war paint and what not . |
| 24 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 25 | The second , one that we have been promoting , is to bring in a new team of professional managers , each experienced at running a multibillion-dollar business unit . |
| 26 | I endorse that point , which follows on from the one that I have been making . |
| 27 | Alan Anderson , Monsanto Quality Manager , presented the award and made these comments : ‘ I had a personal interest in this one because I 've been working on the application of quality to safety management which is what the Rubber Chemicals Safety Improvement team is all about . |
| 28 | you can guarantee it she goes to shops about eleven o'clock , she do n't come back till one because she 's been talking on shops , that 's her routine you know ? |
| 29 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 30 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |