Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 2 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 3 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 6 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 7 | every time I look , turn round , she 's been visiting some aids patient |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 9 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 10 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 11 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 12 | He 's been showing some Americans round Oxford this morning — and he 's got a lecture this afternoon , so … |