Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My officers have been bravely patrolling that estate , on behalf of the community which we serve , and will continue to do so . |
| 2 | ‘ So much , cara , I 've been wanting to do nothing else all week , and my self-control has been nearly crippling me … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ No , my son has been rather monopolising your company , has n't he ? ’ she teased . |
| 4 | Its support had been visibly waning , and it now collapsed and found itself suspended or abolished in the republics . |
| 5 | Instinctively she knew that this was Stavros , the Greek man that her brothers had been constantly talking about since Anthony 's death . |
| 6 | For example , a woman highly committed to her parenting role would be particularly sensitive to an event which threatened her view of herself as a good mother , such as discovering her child had been regularly truanting from school . |
| 7 | Mr Martin drew Ortega 's attention to the Nicaraguan practice of keeping prisoners standing upright in their cells , a particularly painful and degrading treatment against which Amnesty had been vigorously campaigning . |
| 8 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 9 | Bowler said her husband had been out drinking and when he returned home there had been an argument . |
| 10 | Jealousy of her friend had been steadily mounting in the last few months . |
| 11 | Their mother had been forever running after her with a pencil box or an exercise book or a threepenny piece for church collection , and the maid had turned up a lost doll , a coin , a glove in every corner . |
| 12 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 13 | Willie , whose stomach had been steadily growing tighter , almost spilt his tea over his shorts . |
| 14 | Since June 1868 his enthusiasm for Wagner and his works had been steadily growing . |
| 15 | Since he died in January , his family has been regularly renewing the decorations on his grave . |
| 16 | Our laboratory had been routinely screening with probes cf56a , cf56b , and 9–7 , which cover about 93% of deletions in our population . |