Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 32 | How can teachers be prepared to undertake the process of pragmatic mediation that I have been proposing in these chapters ? |
| 33 | ‘ 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ I have been wondering about that , ’ Cranston replied . |
| 35 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 36 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 37 | 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 . ’ |
| 38 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 39 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 40 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | I have been dreaming of those 83,000 fans around Wembley Stadium . |
| 43 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 44 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 45 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 46 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 47 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 48 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 49 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 50 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 51 | In general , we have been writing about those melodies which are complete and have a well-defined entirety . |
| 52 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 53 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 54 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
| 55 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 56 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
| 57 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 58 | What should you do about old hurts , the catalogues of personal dramas we have been unearthing in this chapter ? |
| 59 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 60 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |