Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 32 | He 's been at Pepe 's as long as I 've been coming here — though he does sometimes take holidays , I must admit . ’ |
| 33 | Have Walsall always played in the same colours as long as you 've been supporting them ? |
| 34 | As long as she 'd been fighting him there had still been a hope that she might eventually emerge the victor . |
| 35 | ‘ Did you really expect to stay healthy , living rough as you have been doing , not eating enough , I expect — ’ |
| 36 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 37 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 38 | ‘ I 'm so glad I told you , ’ she continued — ’ I 've been feeling terribly guilty while it 's been going on . ’ |
| 39 | She was adamant that she had been wearing her G-string at the time — round her ankle . |
| 40 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 41 | Item — On the night of March 18th , there was a fierce storm ; Alexander was not drunk but he had been drinking heavily . |
| 42 | Silicon Amnesia Sir : I bought your magazine for the first time this month and was very annoyed that I have been missing out on an excellent value piece of publishing catering to beginners ( me ) and experienced alike . |
| 43 | ‘ The boys are naturally worried and they have been phoning home to find out more about the situation , ’ Mathur said . |
| 44 | Wilkinson admitted : ‘ I am keeping all my options open and I have been thinking about whether I should play Rocastle . |
| 45 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 46 | A lunch with the Capo dello Squadro Anti-Terrorismo that he had been waiting a year for , a session with a good guy in the Guardia di Finanze , and a squash game with Dieter who was number two to the Legal Attaché , and he just did n't know whether he 'd be back before the Little League All Stars trip to Naples and the game against the Sixth Fleet which was the high point of the season which they played now courtesy of the Italian sunshine into late fall . |
| 47 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 48 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |
| 49 | Corden added : ‘ Tuesday 's result was very disappointing but we have been carrying a few injuries . |
| 50 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 51 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 52 | On their wedding night he was drunk , and she was affectionate and clinging , and it was as hopeless as he had been predicting to himself . |
| 53 | I was surprised that he had been listening and seemed interested now . |
| 54 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 55 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 56 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 57 | She was dimly aware that she had been treating her friends badly . |
| 58 | Dawson was aware that she 'd been combating a bout of ill-temper since he 'd arrived . |
| 59 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 60 | In his Chicago lectures , for example , he described how certain passages of Notes toward the Definition of Culture had been exposed as a " mass of contradictions " and , at the end , he also made a rueful disclaimer — " I am quite aware that I have been trying to persuade , although I may not be quite sure of what " . |