Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe that 's where I 've been going wrong all this time . |
| 2 | I 've been feeling delicate all day , what with the trial and everything . |
| 3 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 4 | During the past decade , I have been studying small-to medium-sized , fast-growing organisations . |
| 5 | Two floors up , behind her desk , sits manager Marlene Ross — the powerhouse who has been managing top Gaelic rockers , Runrig , for 12 years . |
| 6 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 7 | Obviously you know when you 've been sitting still this is probably the worse hour of the day . |
| 8 | She had been wearing blue faded jeans , and a white sweat shirt flattened against the pointed nipples and the upturned breasts ; the cotton seeming too thin a protection against the freshening onshore breeze . |
| 9 | The aim of the seminars was to bring together everyone who had been conducting social anthropological fieldwork in Scotland recently . |
| 10 | But , as Muz Murray pointed out to Bristol 's Occult Bookshop 's Robert Gilbert who had been attacking other underground papers , it was wrong to be too hard on the others . |
| 11 | A teenager who 's been having pioneering medical treatment to help him grow , is back on his feet … and learning karate . |
| 12 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 13 | Although we have been seeking similar promotional competitions with northern theatres [ and we have n't given up yet ] we do not have the facilities to run a comprehensive programme of regional competitions . |
| 14 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 15 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 16 | He 'd been feeling good that day : finding the sweet-spot time after time , the ball coming off the racquet head with no sense of effort . |
| 17 | The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks . |
| 18 | He had been doodling obsessive box-like designs , a nest of interlocking right-angled lines locking out all possibility of error or surprise . |
| 19 | On closer questioning it was found that he had been harbouring strong transsexual feelings for some while and that the injury resulted from an urge to initiate a sex change . |
| 20 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |