Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 32 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 33 | His beard was grey-white , but discoloured yellow around his mouth as if he had been drooling thin custard . |
| 34 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 35 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 36 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 37 | He almost certainly had a pearl fedora to go with the image and brown and white two-tone shoes , if he 'd been wearing any . |
| 38 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 39 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 40 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 41 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 42 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
| 43 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 44 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 45 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 46 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
| 47 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 48 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 49 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 50 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 51 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 52 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 53 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 54 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
| 55 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 56 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 57 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |
| 58 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 59 | ‘ Do n't you fucking well know that the enemy have been mortaring the village green for the past four or five minutes while you have been playing those fucking bagpipes ? ’ |
| 60 | Then she thought perhaps Pat is dead now , perhaps he has died even now while we have been watching this dreadful absurdity . |