Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Potential regional final hosts should tell us how long you 've been running exemption shows and give as much background information as possible . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps she 's been thinking things out and she feels a bit sorry for you . ’ |
| 3 | So you 've been appointed Chairman ! |
| 4 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 5 | Mm , well obviously they 've been casting bonds and tell judgment |
| 6 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 7 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 8 | Q. I have two six-inch Temporales , which I bought as a pair when they were three inches long , and lately they have been showing signs of breeding , such as locking their jaws and tail slapping . |
| 9 | Tonight he 'd been running swabs from the theatres down to the furnace room , in sealed bags and boxes that had been taped and marked with every imaginable hazard warning . |
| 10 | And then later he had been bound apprentice to Ninereeds the Masteraccount , who in his grey-mindedness was everything that dragons were not , and there was no time for dreaming . |
| 11 | Herod had arrested John because John kept reminding Herod of how wrong he had been to marry Herodias , who was already married to Herod 's brother Philip . |
| 12 | So far I have been suggesting ways in which the Free Church benefited from the political activities of its founder and other leading members . |
| 13 | So far we have been discussing behaviour within groups . |
| 14 | Whereas until now we have been considering changes that are forming an underclass , we now turn to examine a reform already enacted that will ensure that the underclass , and other vulnerable groups , continue to be the least privileged in old age . |
| 15 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 16 | Well I 've been making Christmas cake this morning so I feel quite er happy with myself . |
| 17 | They somehow managed to persuade the owners , apparently it was and it was and nobody else had ever been allowed in this place not even erm historians who write about famous buildings , even they had been refused access ! |
| 18 | Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon . |
| 19 | It had happened up and down the land , and Steve White said even he 'd been given £10,000 for an earlier move between Luton and Charlton Athletic . |
| 20 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 21 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 22 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 23 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 24 | Sometimes I 've been drinking tea with a Sherpa friend of mine in the village of Kundy and there 'll be a clatter up the stairs caused by a dozen people saying ‘ We understand Hillary 's here ’ , as if that gives them the right to charge in and take over . ’ |
| 25 | And he added , in a voice that would have done credit to an elder of the Wee Frees , ‘ If he is yer brother , then ye 've been committin' incest . |
| 26 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 27 | " Maybe they have been drinking tizwin , " he said . |
| 28 | Five years earlier he had been fined £100 by magistrates at Uxbridge for trying to smuggle cannabis and LSD through customs at Heathrow Airport . |
| 29 | Until then he 'd been expecting Blagg , and he might know exactly what he 'd left . ’ |
| 30 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |