Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 2 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 3 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 5 | ‘ They all live in the Sydenham , Inverary Park , Holywood Road , and Garnerville area and say they have been feeling very unwell . |
| 6 | You bolt on the tail and wings you 've been towing behind on a trailer , flip a couple of switches on the dashboard , and then find a strip of flat land to take off from . |
| 7 | She apologizes for being thirty seconds late and says she 's been having her nails done . |
| 8 | He then stopped himself in mid-sentence and claimed he had been joking . |
| 9 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 10 | For those who love Churchill partly because of his warts and feel they have been waiting too long to hear the case for the prosecution put eloquently and with impeccable soundness , ‘ it is a delight ’ . ’ |
| 11 | Similarly , upon receiving a client , immediately introduce yourself by name , and preferably also by card , so that in two minutes the client is calling you by your own name and feels you have been handling his business all his life . |
| 12 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 13 | And to think he 'd been agonizing about what line to take on Bartocci 's conspiracy theory ! |
| 14 | When questioned by police he confessed to the killing and said he 'd been drinking and taking amphetamines . |
| 15 | Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week . |
| 16 | Robyn took a sip and wished she had been listening from the beginning . |
| 17 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |
| 18 | Dana would laugh and say she had been teasing , and they would talk about the big show for charity where Dana would model the wedding gown Claudia had designed . |
| 19 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |