Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 2 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 3 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 4 | It is a shame that you have n't been having the gorgeous autumn which we have enjoyed . |
| 5 | I believe that we will be regarded as a slightly frivolous century , and that we will not be showered with the sort of praise that we have blithely been giving ourselves . |
| 6 | One example of this " sham reading " is brought to our notice when we realise , on reaching the bottom of a page , that we have not been thinking about what the text means . |
| 7 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
| 8 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 9 | That point of order seems to be related to the matter that we have just been discussing . |
| 10 | ‘ The machine has a great potential for use at the centre and its restoration has been a project that we have all been working towards for some while . ’ |
| 11 | I hope everybody understands er , Alton Towers is launching its new things today , Chessington opened this weekend , so we have n't been trading until this weekend in effect in our parks business . |
| 12 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |
| 13 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 16 | He went on : ‘ They are normally engaged in planning non-emergency journeys but since there have not been any it was felt that they have just been sitting around socialising when others are working long hours . |
| 17 | It it means that they have n't been doing their duty in the winter then . |
| 18 | Yet another way in which people may judge the costliness of different types of credit is how reasonable they think any credit terms are that they have recently been using . |
| 19 | Funny enough , Peter and I have both been swimming together and we 've both got the same thing |
| 20 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 21 | I 'm supposed to , watching me diet and I have n't been eating roast potatoes |
| 22 | ‘ But obviously you ca n't have the confidence unless you keep winning , and I have n't been winning since April when I started struggling with injury . ’ |
| 23 | And I have n't been doing it . |
| 24 | It 's 1,000 years old and I have n't been diving that long to make a find like that . |
| 25 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 26 | Er and you have n't been taking any of those Diazepam at all ? |
| 27 | Anyone with a history of injuries ( or if you have already been skiing and suffered one ) will benefit from a session on their Cybex analysis machine ( £30 ) which sagely tests joint and muscular strength at different resistances . |
| 28 | And so if you have not been concentrating on the question |
| 29 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 30 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |