Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 3 | An inquest has been hearing how a bomb expert and four other workers were killed as they helped to clear Gulf War debris in the Kuwaiti desert . |
| 4 | The outstanding performers were Scott Loftus , of Old Loughts , who scored four , and Old Felstedians Chris Maitland and Paul Surridge , who has been holding down a place with National League First Division outfit Canterbury since leaving school . |
| 5 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 6 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 7 | To find out what effect all this burning may be having on the upper atmosphere , particularly upon global warming , the Brazilian space institute , in collaboration with NASA from the United States , has been carrying out a research programme . |
| 8 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 9 | First off though our reporter Fiona Mcbride has been finding out a bit more about Glasgay . |
| 10 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 11 | Yet for almost 20 years a black-owned company , Writers and Readers , has been putting out a line of books in Britain and America , called ‘ the Beginners Series ’ , designed to tell black children and students about history , culture and famous people . |
| 12 | If you think that Toronto vertical market turnkey systems integrator Geac Computer Corp has been making rather a lot of acquisitions of late , well you ai n't seen nothing yet . |
| 13 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 14 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 15 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 16 | He should have been carrying out a test run but refused because the machine is blacked by the NCU . |
| 17 | Seen a a lot of other things I would n't have seen if I 'd have been working down a pit or behind a shop counter or something . |
| 18 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 19 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 20 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 21 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 22 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 23 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 24 | Although the consultants in London seemed to use their beds more effectively , 1912 patients ( an average of 39.1 per consultant ) had been waiting over a year for admission , which implies a lack of resources . |
| 25 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 26 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 28 | And then when you 're okay when you 've been riding round a bit you take them off . |
| 29 | Well , I 've been hearing quite a lot about timeshare recently . |
| 30 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |