Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 2 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 3 | I hope you have been receiving mail from me . |
| 4 | I understand you have been nursing ’ — she glanced at a note — ‘ Mr William Charles Francis since Saturday night ? ’ |
| 5 | In the meantime , I understand you have been trying to find out how the Carmel Woods inquiry went . |
| 6 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
| 7 | I feel I have been neglecting your drawing lately . " |
| 8 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 9 | I notice you have been fighting , so maybe your errand was not so slight . |
| 10 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 11 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 12 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 13 | As you know I have been meeting every two weeks with all the staff in the Economic Development Team , and discussing with them each stage of the process . |
| 14 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 15 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 16 | ‘ We feel we have been considering each other too much . |
| 17 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 18 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 19 | Time flows strangely and travellers become lost for years although they think they have been walking only hours . |
| 20 | He says I have been flying for four years . |