Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 32 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 33 | I have been giving a great deal of consideration towards the most effective Council Tax structure to be adopted based on the experiences of Community Charge to date . |
| 34 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 35 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 36 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 37 | Tam Dalyell is wrong to say that I have been predicting a total European ban on lead in petrol as from June this year ( Forum . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 40 | She has been taking a small holiday . |
| 41 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 42 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |
| 43 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 44 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 45 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 46 | Just for a second there , she 'd been uncovering a softer , more human side to the man . |
| 47 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 48 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 49 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 50 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 51 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 52 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 53 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 54 | I was sure she had been holding a small phial with the letters ‘ SUL ’ written on it . |
| 55 | She had been expecting a small , dusty room filled with paintings draped in cloths that were thick with dust , where air would have a musty scent of old canvas and decay . |
| 56 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 57 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 58 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 59 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 60 | True to the word , she had been adding a full bottle to her small garden pond on a weekly basis , for the past month . |