Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 2 | In [ 17 ] the author writes that he had been saying that Gardner looked very square : But of course Carver had not actually said that Gardner looked very square , at least not in the Gricean ( Grice 1981 ) sense of the word . |
| 3 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 4 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 5 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 6 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 7 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 8 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues . |
| 10 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 11 | Her partner 's passionate hobby was shooting , and she knew from their telephone calls that he had been spending his spare time at a sports club which had a range . |
| 12 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 13 | It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ . |
| 14 | Evidence abounds that he has been approaching the top of his game for the event , following up his second place in the Tournament Players ' Championship , in Florida recently , with a sixth at New Orleans on Sunday . |
| 15 | In the course of Abimelech 's questioning of Abraham it emerges that he has been claiming Sarah is his sister at every place they have been ! |
| 16 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 17 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 18 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |