Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Summers-Smith has been chasing little birds most of his life . |
| 2 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 3 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 4 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 5 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 6 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 7 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 8 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 9 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 10 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 11 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 12 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |
| 13 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 14 | Brintons have been manufacturing fine quality woven carpet over 200 years / . |
| 15 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 16 | he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid |