Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 2 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 3 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 4 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 5 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 6 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
| 7 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 9 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 10 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 11 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 12 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
| 13 | You , you 've been hacking at this one bit , it 's gone too soft , look that 's why , yes , gone too soft |
| 14 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 15 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 16 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 17 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 18 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 19 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 20 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 21 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
| 22 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 23 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 24 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 25 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 26 | It had been thrilling at first to start work for a real knight and his lady and to live in this tall mansion with its halls and parlours , its tapestries and suits of armour . |
| 27 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 28 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 29 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 30 | He 's been looking at that erm inspiration has n't , do you know I bet it would if he made a cup of tea why was n't |