Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 2 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 3 | Well , it 's funny cos like , she 'd , me Mum an that 's been taking her shopping down and she 's been buying it herself and like me Auntie Jean , she goes down three or four times a day sometimes and then she goes down again and it 's all missing ! |
| 4 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 5 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 6 | Therefore , there must be value elsewhere and I have been studying the other prices . |
| 7 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 8 | Damned if I could make out quite what 's going on and I 've been trying hard enough . ’ |
| 9 | There had been too much ‘ talk and show ’ early on and he had been wriggling about , scraping his chair back and causing Mrs Singh to reprimand him constantly . |
| 10 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 11 | I had telephoned various nursing homes in the vicinity whose staff would , I thought , be more conversant with these vagaries of conduct , but they were all full up and I 'd been starting to feel desperate . |
| 12 | Before she had come here , she had had her life sorted out and everything had been running smoothly . |
| 13 | I mean I think er , when your blood pressure was found out and you 'd been taking tablets ever , so , I think it 's kept it all under control and you 've , you , we eat a sensible diet . |
| 14 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 15 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 16 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 17 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 18 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 19 | Penguin the staff reduction there does n't look particularly er high but then we were reducing staff there last year and we 've er , we 've disposed of Smithmark and the travel guides er , the warehouse and distribution system is working very well and we 've been adding distribu distribution clients there er the autumn list looks very strong indeed particularly in the U S especially and er , we 've shipped er , over two million of Stephen King 's latest book and there 's another one due in the autumn and we 're expecting to ship about two and a half million of er of , of that one . |
| 20 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 21 | Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since . |
| 22 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 23 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 24 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 25 | Huh me sitting here and you 've been eating blood supper . |
| 26 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 27 | and er erm and we discussed it fully and I 've been noting the points down you know but what , what in particular was of interest to you on that er er on that on those discussions ? |
| 28 | I remembered being in the weight-training room with two club-mates , Trevor Wade and Clifford Mamba , a few weeks earlier and we had been discussing sprinting . |