Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STEVE DAVIS has been practising six hours a day during the build-up to the Embassy World championship , such is his determination to win his seventh title . |
| 2 | The army has been giving would-be soldiers the chance to get some hands on experience of military equipment . |
| 3 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 4 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 5 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 6 | The patients in our trial had been smoking 25 cigarettes a year for 25 years . |
| 7 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 8 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |
| 12 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 13 | In the last 18 months alone Megatech has shipped in excess of 4500 copies of TAS , and since the beginning of this year sales have been averaging 400 units a month . |
| 14 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 15 | An even longer contract is at Grampian TV in Aberdeen , where we have been operating 365 days a year , for the past 24 years . |
| 16 | A company spokeswoman said : ‘ We have been selling 100 bottles a day . |
| 17 | The KM rides have been attracting more participants every year — and the strain on the facilities is beginning to tell . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 19 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |