Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been discovering how much travel writing relies on metaphor to describe the unfamiliar , using an imagery that the folks back home will recognise . |
| 2 | I think I needed a break I have been pushing really hard and was more tired than I was prepared to admit , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income . |
| 4 | I have been feeling so groggy lately I just want to ensure the plan does n't go awry if anything happens to me … " |
| 5 | It 's funny , I have been having really weird dreams over the last three nights , and I never dream . |
| 6 | Is it not outrageous that coalfield areas such as Nottinghamshire which have been waiting nearly two years for this money are still denied it because of the party political games played by the former Cabinet Minister and now Labour Commissioner Millan ? |
| 7 | STERLING hung like a pall over commodity markets which have been growing more gloomy for their own reasons in recent months . |
| 8 | So I mean those of you who have been getting appallingly low marks and there are some of you in this set and I do n't get this every year . |
| 9 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 10 | Talks broke down today between the Soviet and Japanese delegations who have been negotiating over recent territorial clashes over culture-krill-harvesting operations off the island of Sakhalin . |
| 11 | And finally we return you to America to party on down with those incredibly nice chaps from TEENAGE FAN CLUB , who have been winning over all and sundry with their boyish charm , roguish antics and , occasionally , pop music . |
| 12 | Would-be buyers who have been returning home empty-handed ( because they have not been offering sufficiently high prices ) have not learned that it is necessary to outbid other buyers ; would-be sellers who return home with unsold goods or resources ( because they have been asking prices that are too high ) have not learned that they must , if they wish to sell , be satisfied with lower prices . |
| 13 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |
| 14 | ‘ You have been sailing very close to the wind , miss , ’ he said as Dai returned to the room . |
| 15 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 16 | Complete removal of weeds , including all the roots , is important , preferably by hand or while digging ; incidentally , do remember that some of them may be the very plants you are intending to grow , though if the area contains horsetail it is better not to try growing perennial plants in it until you have been clearing out this weed for some years . |
| 17 | Spring is also the ideal time to do all those jobs you have been putting off all winter . |
| 18 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
| 19 | We have been running totally new services . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I can confirm we have been carrying out certain inquiries , including the forensic re-examination of material . ’ |
| 21 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 22 | So far we have been raising rather large issues in an abstracted and certainly general fashion which , it is to be hoped , will become clearer as they are filled out in what follows by way of the discussion of specific methods of data collection . |
| 23 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 24 | ‘ But if you look at their records they have been knocking over leading Test match sides in this way for years . |
| 25 | For those who love Churchill partly because of his warts and feel they have been waiting too long to hear the case for the prosecution put eloquently and with impeccable soundness , ‘ it is a delight ’ . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They all live in the Sydenham , Inverary Park , Holywood Road , and Garnerville area and say they have been feeling very unwell . |
| 27 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |
| 28 | Getting prisoners to realise there are people worse off than themselves , is the main idea behind a 3-day event at Stoke Mandeville. 30 of them have been helping mentally handicapped people of all ages simply to enjoy themselves . |