Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 3 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 4 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 5 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 6 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 7 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 8 | I 've been seeing these funny yellow ones ! |
| 9 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |
| 10 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
| 11 | I 've been going half crazy with worry wondering what on earth had happened to you . ’ |
| 12 | Maybe that 's where I 've been going wrong all this time . |
| 13 | I 've been practising this mega dance routine . |
| 14 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been doing all this that looks nice yes ? |
| 16 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been feeling delicate all day , what with the trial and everything . |
| 18 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |
| 19 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 20 | I 've been requesting that small courtesy for weeks ! |
| 21 | But he added : ‘ That said , I must say I am extremely pessimistic about the future of the plant , given all that I have been hearing these last few days . ’ |
| 22 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 23 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 24 | During the past decade , I have been studying small-to medium-sized , fast-growing organisations . |
| 25 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 26 | Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced . |
| 27 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 28 | Two floors up , behind her desk , sits manager Marlene Ross — the powerhouse who has been managing top Gaelic rockers , Runrig , for 12 years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |