Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from re-investing in his own business Riddle has been buying industrial shares while the market is depressed , presumably on the assumption that there are better times ahead . |
| 2 | He is a former partner of Gaffer Hexam 's , but Hexam repudiates him when he finds that Riderhood has been robbing live bodies as well as dead ones . |
| 3 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 4 | For a decade now the developed world has been celebrating African music while altogether denying its otherness . |
| 5 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 6 | The tin-mining towns of Camborne and Redruth on the north coast of Cornwall had been facing major redundancies since the 1985 plunge in tin prices . |
| 7 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 8 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 9 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 10 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 11 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 12 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 14 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 15 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 16 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 17 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 18 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 19 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 20 | We have been making great progress as people sometimes prefer to talk to civilians . ’ |
| 21 | Outside , the Chelsea Pensioner pub would have have been doing good business if it had any drinks to sell , but it was purely decorative ; part of garden by Hereford Wyevale Garden Centre called the outer sanctum which won a silver-gilt medal . |
| 22 | ‘ I , myself , have been observing this jet as it gets ready for take-off and there is a definite smell of fuel . ’ |
| 23 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
| 24 | It 's been banging all day because I ca n't be bothered to go out there and shut it . |