Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was lured into the private sector by the ambitious plans of her former colleague , Mr Colin Stringer , who has been dealing with mentally handicapped people for 25 years . |
| 2 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 3 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 4 | When the young man was twenty he discovered that his mother had been boasting about how wonderful he was to all her friends . |
| 5 | ‘ Parr , throughout the morning , had been dipping into similarly murky pools , had heard , in fact , the name of Michael Collins mentioned . |
| 6 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 7 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 8 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
| 9 | We have been pushing for more effective action from the NIO for years and it is utter nonsense to say otherwise , ’ he said . |
| 10 | THE fictional firemen from ITV 's hit series London 's Burning have been looking at how American actors tackled blazes in the movie Backdraft , released this week on CIC Video . |
| 11 | Those attached to long subduction zones , such as the Pacific Plate , have been moving at comparatively high velocities ( 60–90 mm a- 1 ) , whereas plates lacking extensive subducting boundaries have experienced slower rates of movement ( below 40 mm a-1 ) . |