Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been burping an awful lot , in my stomach . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 5 | She 's been wearing an inflatable plastic suit that slimmed your body and she 'd ignited it with her cigarette . |
| 6 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 7 | To date we have been permitting an additional smoking break in the morning and again in the afternoon for smokers within the office as part of the agreement to have no smoking throughout the main parts of Chesser House . |
| 8 | In recent years , when there have been reductions in public funding for housing associations , it has been developing an increasing proportion of properties for sale in order to maintain and expand its activities . |
| 9 | It has been conducting an urgent review of the way it manages its affairs and is embarking upon a further review of the number and function of its various committees . |
| 10 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |
| 11 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
| 12 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 13 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 14 | While he had been talking an Arabic serving-woman had silently entered the room . |