Example sentences of "have been [verb] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What poor soul has been taking stuff in for Bosnia ? |
| 2 | Yamaha 's factory in Kaohsiung has been building guitars now for over twenty years … |
| 3 | But er unfortunately , this is something that happened in the past and the government have been prosecuted for it , they 've been found guilty , but Blackpool 's name has been dragged way down with them . |
| 4 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 5 | Kay Evans who has been seeing Molly regularly in hospital gave us up-to-date new of her . |
| 6 | For Emeruwa , life has been turned upside down after an ankle injury in a sevens match in 1984 . |
| 7 | Apparently , someone called Harry Kellerman has been phoning people up about George , and giving him ‘ the bad mouth all over town ’ . |
| 8 | While some manufacturers advocated the latter , a more popular approach has been to build computers out of conventional processors so that many current programs and , more importantly , programming concepts , can be recycled . |
| 9 | ‘ PopCon has been doing research all over the world to establish that the majority of prospective parents would prefer a son to a daughter , and many would be prepared to undergo minor medical procedures to ensure that they got their wish , including the abortion of a female fetus , ’ Dorothy told a hushed audience in a room at a secret address in North London . |
| 10 | ‘ I admit that Toby has been stirring things up in his newspaper . |
| 11 | Dora has always kept the old house in such good condition , and Fred has been working wonders here in the garden , too . |
| 12 | For the last three years , it has been working flat out on its comparability project , to reduce the number of alternative accounting methods allowed in its international accounting standards . |
| 13 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 14 | But during the last decade the challenge of achieving expanding opportunities for the many has been ignored — instead , the priority has been to bring benefits only to the few . |
| 15 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 16 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 17 | The mother of an incontinent daughter , who had been lent money out of the DSS Social Fund to buy a washing machine , had the machine removed by a bailiff . |
| 18 | Subsequently , they were much less likely to avoid the saccharin solution than rats which had been given water instead of vinegar ( Revusky , 1971 ) . |
| 19 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 20 | The 17 defendants were convicted on the strength of two groups of evidence : their confessions made in police custody , and forensic tests which found that various of them had been handling explosives shortly before the bombings . |
| 21 | The preserved blast furnace beside the Ashby Canal was built by Lord Moira , inheritor of the property of the powerful Hastings family , who had been mining coal here since the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | And , as an example of the caddie who finally got his own back on his player , who had been throwing clubs around in a temper all day : the player said , ‘ I make it about 110 yards to the green ; what club do you think ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If Ally McCoist , Ian Durrant and Paul McStay had been born bambinos instead of bairns , they would all now be in the Italian first division and commanding the same prices . |
| 24 | Mr Daniels , from Newton Abbot , Devon , who had been making poems up in his head , was helped by a voice synthesiser which ‘ spoke ’ each letter typed , and read back what he had written . |
| 25 | ‘ He had been making promises earlier in the week and then he rejected the idea yesterday . ’ |
| 26 | They had been having dinner separately in the harem quarters , as they always did , the night that it happened . |
| 27 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 28 | The land had been raped years past by the sea . |
| 29 | Eventually , a couple who had been putting food down for Sadie for about six months managed to trap her in a garage and driveway . |
| 30 | Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours . |