Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 2 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 3 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 4 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 5 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been working out the date for the party , ’ Frau Nordern said , producing an enormous desk diary . |
| 7 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 9 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 10 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 11 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 12 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 13 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 14 | After it 's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest . |
| 15 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 16 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |