Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 2 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 3 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 4 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 5 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 6 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 7 | It 's just that you 've been doing things the same way for ten plus years and it 's second nature . |
| 8 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 9 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 10 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 11 | Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 14 | I understand today that you 've been celebrating with tea . |
| 15 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 16 | While the recovery is a little bit slower that we had been anticipating when I left GM Europe , it 's not very much different than what we had expected . |
| 17 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |
| 18 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 19 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 20 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 21 | how this clashes with everything else that we 've been doing . |
| 22 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 23 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |