Example sentences of "have been reading [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karl Hammond has been reading the Royal Society 's report on risk |
| 2 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 3 | Sean French has been reading the Bible |
| 4 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 5 | Mr McNeill said he has had been reading the Belfast Telegraph for years and enjoys doing the crossword first , perusing the television viewing and then gets around to reading the news . |
| 6 | It was June ; it was Bexhill-on-Sea ; he may have been reading the county scores . |
| 7 | He even claimed to have been reading a book on cybernetics at the time of the revolution , but his scholarly interests did not prevent him from amassing enormous wealth by the standards of his fellow citizens . |
| 8 | The chairman , wearing a fawn sports jacket , said he apologised if he had ‘ caused any offence ’ , but said he was annoyed because Mr Loveluck-Edwards had been reading a novel in court . |
| 9 | At this point the young man , who had been reading a folded newspaper , looked up and said in a slightly truculent voice , ‘ Excuse me , madam , but that 's my pudding you 're about to eat . ’ |
| 10 | Somebody had been reading a paper there , which apparently happened quite often , Penelope learned , and they usually finished at about this time . |
| 11 | She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion . |
| 12 | Peregrine switched the wireless off , imitating the stilted tones of whoever had been reading the news . |
| 13 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 14 | We had been reading the poems of a Greek poet in French translation together . |
| 15 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 16 | ‘ And presumably , ’ said Julia , who had been reading the backlog of newspapers that had accumulated during her illness , ‘ the appalling winter will have done for this year 's as well . ’ |
| 17 | Lucy had been reading The Saint from her father 's shelves when all of the other girls had their noses in Black Beauty . |
| 18 | Which of them had been reading The Book of Poisons ? |
| 19 | Werewolf had been reading the owner 's handbook of Patterson 's BMW and experimenting with the passenger seat , having achieved what seemed like a dozen different positions before we got south of the river . |
| 20 | I 've been reading a deliciously illustrated pamphlet Allotments : a viewer 's guide , just published by the educational charity Broadcasting Support Services . |
| 21 | I 've been reading a copy of the above document and I must say I am very disturbed by its proposals , and disappointed at the negative attitude it conveys . |
| 22 | I 've been reading the fucking Bible for the last few days . |
| 23 | You 've been reading the programme as well . |
| 24 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 've been reading an interview in Groundswell where Johnny Boy says that he 's misunderstood and really he 's got a heart of gold . ’ |
| 26 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 27 | Recently I have been reading the writings of Matthew Fox , a Dominican who is very popular for his creation spirituality and love of the environment . |
| 28 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 29 | However , while you have been reading the book , you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy , in the form of food , into disordered energy , in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat . |
| 30 | But first of all I 'd like to congratulate the officers on the report er I 'm sure that those people who have been reading the reports and officers of the County Council for some years er will have probably er , er it 's been a long time since they 've read one that 's been expressed in such strong terms . |