Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 2 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 3 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 4 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 5 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 6 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 7 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
| 8 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 9 | The kind of imprinting that we have been considering so far is called ‘ filial ’ imprinting . |
| 10 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 12 | The research-oriented approach to teaching that I have been proposing here obviously sets a high premium on teacher preparation , and that in turn raises the issues of the education and training of teachers . |
| 13 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 14 | you 've got an order form closed , right you 've got a sumter closed , where you assume that the customer 's buying cos he 's been giving you buying signals , you 're hoping |
| 15 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 16 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 17 | After hearing that they had been attending a high school graduation party , they were released by the judge on the condition that they were each driven to their parents ' home exactly as they appeared in court — with only a blanket for |
| 18 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 20 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 21 | She was embarrassed , realizing that she had been sounding exactly like Nina . |
| 22 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 23 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 24 | Afterwards , I crawled backstage to visit Michael Crawford , forgetting that I 'd been wearing Clinique 's face-bronzer for that glowing , outdoor , tanned look we all know and simulate . |