Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 2 | This has happened when I have been catching plenty of barbel , with no breakages , and the matchmen have asked me what I have been using . |
| 3 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 7 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 8 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 9 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 10 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |
| 11 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 12 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 13 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 14 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 15 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 16 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 17 | But I followed him , and I have been following him since that day . |
| 18 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 19 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 20 | It is indeed actually the paradox that Fred Hoyle has just rediscovered erm which is for those of us who have been teaching it to our undergraduates for thirty years . |
| 21 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 22 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |
| 23 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 24 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 25 | You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’ |
| 26 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 28 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 30 | We have been paying them in England since 21 February and virtually a third of claims have been met . |