Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adj] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 2 | An important function of the private presses has been to reprint rare works of historical and literary importance . |
| 3 | His secret has been to approach ordinary people about non-controversial issues . |
| 4 | ‘ There is no doubt that Charles has been offered major works at good prices ’ , says one dealer , ‘ because people wanted to see those works in his great collection ; artists have sold him paintings that they would not have sold to anyone else , and they feel betrayed . ’ |
| 5 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 6 | Oswald and his wife Jenny have been selling wet fish from their stall for 45 years . |
| 7 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 8 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 9 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |