Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 2 | I have been doing this for over ten years . |
| 3 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 4 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 5 | I have been keeping fit with swimming . |
| 6 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 7 | In 1986 there was new legislation to restore these traditional colours to houses in the island and banning the use of unpainted aluminium for windows , gates and so on , which have been spoiling many of the traditional buildings . |
| 8 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 9 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 10 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 11 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 12 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 13 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 14 | They have been doing this in Suffolk for almost 110 years , comforting the sick and lonely , and relieving the worries of the anxious and elderly . |
| 15 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 16 | I 've filmed the training sessions where they have been practising collapsing on purpose to cancel out our traditional strength in this department . |
| 17 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 18 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |