Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 2 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 3 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 5 | I 've just been watching all that Fields , that chap Fields . |
| 6 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've also been playing these new Chandler guitars . |
| 8 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |
| 9 | Mm , I have n't been shopping this weekend . |
| 10 | Though I have n't been testing these boots for long before writing this review , initial impressions are very favourable . |
| 11 | ‘ I have n't been having any nasty suspicious thoughts … ’ |
| 12 | I have n't been doing much on Sunday . |
| 13 | Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’ |
| 14 | He said wonderingly , ‘ You 've really been storing this up , have n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | Why has everything suddenly become she you 've only been doing this the last few days . |
| 16 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 17 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 18 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 19 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 20 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 21 | ‘ You told me you had n't been using any different chemicals , Bob . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I knew you had n't been paying any attention . |
| 23 | Er and you have n't been taking any of those Diazepam at all ? |
| 24 | Are you sure you have n't been taking any drugs , tablets , medicines of any sort — ’ she shook her head violently , but refused to meet his gaze ‘ — or any antibiotics during the last six months ? ’ |
| 25 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |
| 26 | ‘ We 've just been agreeing that what 's between us is personal , have n't we ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 've not been putting any in . ’ |
| 28 | so you know we 've actually been doing that is not new as far as we 're concerned |
| 29 | ‘ We have not been running this campaign as an entertainment for our dear friends in the press and broadcasting media . |
| 30 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |