Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 2 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 3 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 4 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 5 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 6 | In this industry , none has been brought in the past six months . |
| 7 | Now rugby union 's league season is coming to the final fences … three games to go and there 's better news of Gloucester … the Cherry and Whites who 've been fighting off the threat of relegation all season won at Northampton on saturday and should be safe … |
| 8 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 9 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 10 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 11 | Woolton took on to his staff a small group of civil servants who had been working out the implications of the Beveridge report , and also the Uthwatt report on land values . |
| 12 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |
| 13 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 14 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been working out the date for the party , ’ Frau Nordern said , producing an enormous desk diary . |
| 16 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 18 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 19 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 20 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 21 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 22 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 23 | After it 's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest . |
| 24 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 25 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |