Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 2 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 3 | Pyramid Technology Corp , Mountain View , California , has been taking something of a backseat role in telling the world about its newest developments lately : most recently Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was left to deliver Pyramid 's latest MIPS Computer Systems Inc-based R3000 and R400MP siblings at its bash in Rome a couple of weeks ago ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 4 | This may seem an unorthodox way of assuring management succession but then MB Group has been rearranging itself into a new structure for the future . |
| 5 | Miami 's new-born Murk label that has been causing something of a stir on these shores of late , enough at least for Network to wet their oars and row straight for a licensing deal that sees three of the label 's best tracks to date brought together for a sampler EP . |
| 6 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 7 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 8 | Someone must have been reading it during an attack of constipation . |
| 9 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
| 11 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
| 12 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 13 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 14 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 15 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 16 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 17 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 18 | And romance — although ideally , if she had been advising him as a florist , she would have suggested roses instead of the more exotic lilies and orchids he had chosen . |
| 19 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 20 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |
| 21 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 22 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 23 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 24 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 25 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 26 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 27 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 28 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 29 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 30 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |