Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 2 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 3 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 4 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 5 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 6 | Olympia picked out one of the gems when they released Salmanov 's Fourth Symphony ( 3/89 ) , and I have been listening with much pleasure to Mravinsky 's Melodiya LPs of the previous three symphonies by this intriguing composer . |
| 7 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 8 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 9 | The moral common to these stories is one I have been emphasising throughout this discussion . |
| 10 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 11 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 12 | I have given this Nayar material at some length because it exemplifies such a large number of the themes which I have been emphasizing throughout this book . |
| 13 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 16 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 17 | erm , moving on , erm audio description in Scotland , no er since this , the last meeting , yes Cath and I have been talking about all that money , we had an entertaining day out |
| 18 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 19 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 20 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 22 | How can teachers be prepared to undertake the process of pragmatic mediation that I have been proposing in these chapters ? |
| 23 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been wondering about that , ’ Cranston replied . |
| 25 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 26 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 27 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I have been dreaming of those 83,000 fans around Wembley Stadium . |
| 30 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |