Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 2 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes . |
| 4 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 6 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 7 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 8 | The study … breaks the conspiracy of silence which has shielded so-called progressive education from criticisms that people like the Black Paper writers and myself have been making for years , that standards were falling because of non-structured learning and a lack of curriculum , discipline and order . |
| 9 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 10 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 11 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 12 | It 's created senior executives in water , gas and electricity , who have made a killing through massive pay rises , but they pall into insignificance , when you look at the scandal of the share allocations and what 's been going on there . |
| 13 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 14 | Can I also say that , er yes , we were badly served by the press but I think that er the onus now is on those of us who went to Canberra to be able to share with others and we have been going round to tell others about Canberra to share with you and with others the experience of being present in the World Council of Churches in Canberra . |
| 15 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 16 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 17 | ‘ Polling 's up by 10 per cent in parts and they 've been queuing , yes , queuing in St Ives , ’ Mr Archer revealed . |
| 18 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
| 19 | Next , I set about finishing off some chapters of a rheumatology book for GPs that my Bristol colleagues and I have been writing . |