Example sentences of "[pron] have be [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the House of Commons Environment Committee our waste control regulations are a ‘ shambles ’ , and nothing has been done about nitrates and excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers as requested by the EC . |
| 2 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 3 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 4 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 5 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 6 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 8 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 9 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 10 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 11 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 12 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 13 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 14 | I had been overwhelmed with duties as head of the government , and had made no dispositions for the emergency which occurred . |
| 15 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 16 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 17 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 18 | That I see the faces I 've been gutted to ashes . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been pestered by reporters for days , and it really is getting on my nerves . ’ |
| 20 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 21 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 22 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
| 23 | I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been hooked on crisps for years . |
| 26 | I 've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day . |
| 27 | I 've been inundated with calls . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been inundated with letters , ’ she says , then corrects herself . |
| 29 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |