Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 2 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 3 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 4 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 5 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 6 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |
| 7 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 8 | I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’ |
| 10 | No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James . |
| 11 | One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases . |
| 12 | ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ? |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been asking all the questions , and I 've done my best to answer them . |
| 14 | That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ? |
| 15 | And tell me what you 've been doing all the week |
| 16 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's been crying all the time . |
| 18 | I , she 's been ripping all the newspaper . |
| 19 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 20 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 21 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
| 22 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 23 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 24 | When I came out , wearing the least horrid of the shirts he 'd bought for me , he stood up ( he 'd been sitting all the time by the door ) . |
| 25 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 26 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 27 | erm He 's been improving all the time erm and I think he could be a live erm candidate for the outright winner , so that 's the third leg of the yankee . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len . |
| 29 | I think he 's a right lying git , I could n't , he 's been a right lying git , he 's been saying all the things that he 's supposed to say instead of the truth |