Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while I had been ringing the Lost Property office at Queen Street station each week , still pathetically hoping that the bag with Uncle Rory 's poems and Darren Watt 's Möbius scarf would somehow miraculously turn up again . |
| 2 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 3 | By the time she 'd elbowed the door open with two steaming mugs of tea , I had was reading the first thing which had come to hand . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 6 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 7 | I 've been reading the fucking Bible for the last few days . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been thinking the same thing . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been learning the ancient Japanese martial art of san tu dang for about 10 years now and that helps me keep my weight constant . |
| 10 | I 've been leaving the worst to last . |
| 11 | I 've n I 've been using the other keyboard all on the X T and I ca n't get used to this one yet . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been using the front entrance lately . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 14 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been fighting the inevitable for too long , darling . |
| 16 | I arrived on Sunday and I 've been revisiting the old places . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been saying the exact same thing with regard to this Mr Wrong she 's so darned keen on . ’ |
| 18 | ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ . |
| 19 | I 've been analysing the two sessions ever since . |
| 20 | I 've been playing the Modern Jazz Quartet 's records over and over again . |
| 21 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 22 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 23 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 24 | During the past week I have been watching the Germanic guru , Ralf Dahrendorf , on the box , telling us Britishers just where we are going wrong . |
| 25 | I have been driving the best of the best-selling model , the X2 1.5 hatchback , updated at the last Motor Show . |
| 26 | Therefore , there must be value elsewhere and I have been studying the other prices . |
| 27 | I have been examining the Liberal Democrats ' environmental document called , ’ Costing the Earth ’ . |
| 28 | I have been following the hon. Gentleman carefully . |
| 29 | Uniao Nacional para a Independência total de Angola ( UNITA — Union for the Total Independence of Angola , Jonas Savimbi l. ) , a rebel nationalist group backed , financially and militarily , by South Africa and the United States , which has been fighting the MPLA-PT government since independence ; Movement for Socialist Unity in Angola ( MUSA , formed by leaders from the three mainstream nationalist movements in 1977 ) ; in July 1990 the creation was announced of the Angolan Social Democratic Party ( PSDA , an offshoot of MUSA , Moises André Lima l. ) ; the Frente de Libertaçao do Enclave de Cabinda ( FLEC — The Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave , Francisco Xavier Lubota pres. ) and the National Union for the Liberation of Cabinda ( UNLC ) fight for the secession of Cabinda district . |
| 30 | The play was a brilliant pot-boiler which has been reinforcing the Jewish sterotype ever since . |