Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 2 | I can not comment on details of the negotiations because I do not know the details of what is actually happening today , but it is quite clear that we have been arguing that matters affecting foreign policy should continue to be decided under the auspices of intergovernmental co-operation . |
| 3 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 4 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 5 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 6 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 7 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 8 | It smells different when it 's been raining and our clothes are wet . |
| 9 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 10 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 11 | It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it . |
| 12 | The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting . |
| 13 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 14 | It had not been fully dark when she had been flying . |
| 15 | It 's just all sore and I 've been taking a pain here this week . |
| 16 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 17 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 18 | So er they told Mi told Michael in the car the car this morning , point blank that we 've been getting run around ! |
| 19 | Suddenly conscious that she had been holding her breath , Katherine pulled the door closed and then leaned back against the wall , aware of the pounding of her heart . |
| 20 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 21 | She was quite attractive except for a very nasty skin condition , her face and arms were covered with a large number of pustules and it was obvious that she had been scratching them ; the scratch-marks were bleeding slightly . |
| 22 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 23 | The reprieve had been so quick and sudden and she had been dreading the conversation so much … |
| 24 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 25 | And then when you 're okay when you 've been riding round a bit you take them off . |
| 26 | Well I 'm sorry but I 've been working . |
| 27 | Liam , who was not with his father when he was killed on Thursday , said he was not sure where he had been going . |
| 28 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 29 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 30 | As long as they 've been racing hangliders in Britian Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes has flown as fast and soared as high as the very best … |