Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] this [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 2 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 4 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 5 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 6 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 7 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 8 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |