Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 2 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 4 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
| 5 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 6 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 7 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 8 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 9 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 10 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 11 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 12 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 13 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 14 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 15 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 16 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 17 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 18 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |
| 19 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 20 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 21 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 22 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 23 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 24 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 25 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 26 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 27 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 28 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 29 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 30 | Richard , of course , had been preparing for some such move . |