Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 2 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 3 | For a number of years , my wife Ann and I have been fishing with a party of friends at Altnaharra . |
| 4 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 5 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 6 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 7 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |
| 8 | I have been limited to a reduced number of pages , but I have tried hard to make them count . |
| 9 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 10 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 11 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 12 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 13 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 16 | I have been banished to a windy concrete corridor far from everywhere . |
| 17 | ‘ A couple of the DJs and I have been invited to a party being given by one of the local music companies . |
| 18 | On Sunday I have been invited to a farmhouse-restaurant in the country to sample some rural Brazilian fare . |
| 19 | ‘ I have been contacted by a number of my constituents , who work for Clwyd County Council , expressing their concerns about the way they will be represented during the period of local government reorganisation . |
| 20 | I know this because I have been glancing at a magazine called Rubiks printed in English and published in Budapest . |
| 21 | I HAVE been treated for a particular medical condition since childhood . |
| 22 | I HAVE been treated for a particular medical condition since childhood . |
| 23 | I HAVE been hearing of a move on at the moment which , if it spreads , could see us all getting our pay in pints . |
| 24 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 25 | Unfortunately I have been diagnosed as a sufferer of ‘ loyalistus onehundredpercentus . ’ |
| 26 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 27 | ‘ In deciding where to look for additional revenue , I have been guided by a number of principles . |
| 28 | I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments , which do n't really say much . |
| 29 | You know , since last night , I have been indulging in a series of small fantasies … ’ |
| 30 | I have been described as many things , but that is the first time I have been described as a tourist attraction . |