Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 2 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
| 3 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 4 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 5 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 6 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 7 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 8 | During the past week I have been watching the Germanic guru , Ralf Dahrendorf , on the box , telling us Britishers just where we are going wrong . |
| 9 | As you know I have been meeting every two weeks with all the staff in the Economic Development Team , and discussing with them each stage of the process . |
| 10 | I have been driving the best of the best-selling model , the X2 1.5 hatchback , updated at the last Motor Show . |
| 11 | Therefore , there must be value elsewhere and I have been studying the other prices . |
| 12 | I have been examining the Liberal Democrats ' environmental document called , ’ Costing the Earth ’ . |
| 13 | I have been giving a great deal of consideration towards the most effective Council Tax structure to be adopted based on the experiences of Community Charge to date . |
| 14 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 15 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 16 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 17 | Tam Dalyell is wrong to say that I have been predicting a total European ban on lead in petrol as from June this year ( Forum . |
| 18 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 19 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 20 | I have been following the hon. Gentleman carefully . |
| 21 | Being in the habit of eating a generous quantity of food — the more you have been eating the greater the initial weight loss impact when you switch to a slimming diet . |
| 22 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 23 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 24 | At this point , your chances of success are actually considerably reduced , since a power on recovery requires a different technique to a power off landing- and you have been practising the wrong thing ! |
| 25 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 26 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 27 | So far you have been finding the highest number that can be divided into each example without leaving a remainder . |
| 28 | We have been lacking a wee bit of professionalism recently . |
| 29 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 30 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |