Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 62 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 63 | So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members . |
| 64 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 65 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 66 | Since then he had been farming at Mullu , some fifteen miles outside Addis Ababa . |
| 67 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 68 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 69 | For the last year at least it 's been talking with X terminal vendors such as Network Computing Devices , Tektronix , Visual Technology and Human Designed Systems under non-disclosure . |
| 70 | This is precisely what has been happening in recent years , to such an extent that we can without exaggeration speak of a ‘ committals explosion ’ in addition to the remand explosion which we have just outlined . |
| 71 | She said , ‘ I 've been trying to think about Wayne , but instead I 've been thinking about myself . |
| 72 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 73 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 74 | And tell me what else you 've been doing at school ? |
| 75 | I 'm a geologist — that bit was true — and until recently I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 76 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 77 | Yeah and and the other thing which I , actually I 've been laughing at here is because you were laughing at yourself when you were asking the questions . |
| 78 | Recently she 's been concentrating on developing her own career , with a new album doing the rounds , and a very heavy touring schedule in the offing . |
| 79 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |
| 80 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 81 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |