Example sentences of "have been [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yamaha 's factory in Kaohsiung has been building guitars now for over twenty years … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I admit that Toby has been stirring things up in his newspaper . |
| 4 | Dora has always kept the old house in such good condition , and Fred has been working wonders here in the garden , too . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He had been making promises earlier in the week and then he rejected the idea yesterday . ’ |
| 14 | The land had been raped years past by the sea . |
| 15 | I 've been watching videos most of the day . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've been handing weapons out to the Serbs for months . ’ |
| 17 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 18 | That same floor we 've been crossing reaches right to here , one great caldarium , with that hypocaust deployed underneath it all the way . |
| 19 | Occasionally City police would leave a little note saying , ‘ People have been stealing rugs out of cars , I think you ought to lock yours ’ . ’ |
| 20 | In view of his admission some weeks ago that this Government have imposed the heaviest tax burden in British history , will the right hon. Gentleman now apologise for the Chancellor 's wholly inaccurate statement to the House yesterday that the Government have been cutting taxes ever since 1979 ? |
| 21 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 22 | Dr Edgar Munhill , the Frick 's Curator , pointed out to The Art Newspaper , ‘ We have been doing exhibitions here for almost twenty years around aspects of our own collection , often not well known to the general public . |
| 23 | Well you know this next door neighbour of theirs that 's been driving cars all over the place ? |