Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh who 's been telling you all this ? |
| 32 | And we have been doing it all our lives . |
| 33 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 34 | They 'd been planning their own form of ’ entertainment ’ using dangerous weapons like these . |
| 35 | It 's a legal document … but they 've been telling me that all along . |
| 36 | So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ . |
| 37 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 38 | Yet we have already found in Chapter 2 that the UK has , relatively speaking , been suffering from declining international competitiveness as a place in which goods are actually made , though it has been holding its own in providing financial services on a world scale , and is prosperous enough , for example , to have a demand for hypermarkets on the international model . |
| 39 | SCO , whose revenues are thought to be double USL 's and whose board reportedly wants to cash out , makes no secret of the fact that it has been contemplating its own initial public offering ( IPO ) for some time . |
| 40 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 41 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 42 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 43 | He had been speaking nothing less than the truth when he put it well down the list of those he had seen . |
| 44 | He had been running his own freelance investment fund with a few billion yen in assets . |
| 45 | He 's been telling me all sorts of stories about the places he 's worked in . ’ |
| 46 | Yeah , he would , I suppose he 's been eating his own toes all day |
| 47 | ‘ Very likely , ’ said the Leader , ‘ he 's been following us all the way , I could n't see him but I knew . |
| 48 | In between work on these sessions — and having just failed to squeeze in the Charlatans and Bob Geldof — he 's been releasing his own dance records under an assumed name and running his own record label , Foundation , for two years . |