Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 3 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Bavaria I have been served the paler , lighter type of wheat beer as a refreshingly tart , acidic , Champagne-like summer refresher , or even as a dessert beer , with elderberry fritters ( how about apple pie with cinnamon and cloves ? ) , but there are also darker and stronger versions more suited to autumn and winter . |
| 7 | I have been driving the best of the best-selling model , the X2 1.5 hatchback , updated at the last Motor Show . |
| 8 | Therefore , there must be value elsewhere and I have been studying the other prices . |
| 9 | I have been examining the Liberal Democrats ' environmental document called , ’ Costing the Earth ’ . |
| 10 | I have been told the Chinese have a simple inexpensive instrument to trace extra low frequencies . |
| 11 | I have been following the hon. Gentleman carefully . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | So far you have been finding the highest number that can be divided into each example without leaving a remainder . |
| 16 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 17 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 18 | We have been denied the exhilarating late ‘ minuet ’ tempos of Haydn and Mozart … |
| 19 | We have been reversing the Labour Party 's neglect of the prison service in the 1970s . |
| 20 | Solid fuel is the heating fuel we have been using the longest . |
| 21 | So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication . |
| 22 | This second stage is carried out in public speech to which we have been given the decoding key , and from our privileged perspective the success of the hypocrite has unfortunate consequences for the dupe . |
| 23 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 24 | This year , we have been running the general SVQ at level I for around 36 students in S5 — and we 're very pleased with the way it 's gone . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's all very well people telling us we are a really attractive side to watch , ’ he said , ‘ but we have been conceding the odd soft goal and that 's got to stop . |
| 26 | Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful . |
| 27 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 28 | In fact we have been so good at it that we have been awarded the RCI Gold Star for the second year running . |
| 29 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 30 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |