Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 2 | I have also been experimenting with more knitted ‘ jewellery ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 4 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 5 | I have just been watching on television the final scenes from the Royal Shakespeare Company 's performance of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 6 | Indeed , as I write this , I have just been watching on television Lord Denning declaring with self-satisfaction that he puts all such letters straight into the wastepaper basket . |
| 7 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 8 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 9 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't been pretending to be in love with you this weekend . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 12 | ‘ But obviously you ca n't have the confidence unless you keep winning , and I have n't been winning since April when I started struggling with injury . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But Gary — I have n't been spying for you ! |
| 14 | No , what she said about , about what she says there 's me , I have n't been talking about her , do n't tell her this . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to see a sports psychologist because I have n't been focusing on the job and I must become more positive . ’ |
| 16 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 17 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 18 | I have certainly been screaming with loneliness for as long as I can remember . |
| 19 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 20 | ‘ You have n't been listening to us . |
| 21 | ’ Oh , Bill , you have n't been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 22 | ’ You have n't been confiding in him , have you ? ’ |
| 23 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 24 | ‘ You have n't been sounding like a person who 's feeling better , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 25 | Okay , have you come across anything else that you 've I suppose you have n't had , you have n't been coming across much at all . |
| 26 | And so if you have not been concentrating on the question |
| 27 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 29 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 30 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |