Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
4 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
5 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
6 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
7 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
8 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
9 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
10 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
11 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
12 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
13 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
14 | I also find that he 's been quoting some twelve hour figures and the only ones I have , you may have them er Mr chairman , are from the H and T C report in July of last year where they forecasted four thousand nine hundred on the A six five eight and achieve eight thousa for nineteen ninety six and achieved eight thousand one hundred now . |