Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [pers pn] have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Phil and I , the first time we 'd been skiing together , so that was last , not last year |
| 2 | Last night he had been suffering from jet lag ; now he seemed to be fully recovered , and power flowed from him in waves . |
| 3 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 4 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 5 | ‘ Because you 're a landlord , I suppose , ’ I said , holding back the next thing I had been going to say and then deciding he might not mind . |
| 6 | I know , for the last year we 've been saying we 'll go to Norwich |
| 7 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 8 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 9 | For the last year he 's been setting out his story in his autobiography , a glimpse into decision making during operations like Desert Storm and an insight to his personal life . |
| 10 | In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre . |
| 11 | Since last Christmas I have been struggling towards getting better . |