Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 2 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 3 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 4 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 5 | I know you 've been told different people different things . |
| 6 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 7 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 8 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |