Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 2 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 3 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 4 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 5 | I have been talking to one or two members of s staff at a fairly low level over the last week . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 7 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 8 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 9 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 12 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 13 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 14 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 15 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 16 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 17 | Keeping costs under control , managing our finances well and maintaining innovation in our sales approach are just three examples from a number that illustrate how , as a Division , we have been preparing for 1993 . |
| 18 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |