Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 2 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 3 | Throughout his days at Chelsea , Gallacher had been contesting a long and painful divorce case with his first wife . |
| 4 | Maxim had been reassembling the cleaned and dried gun . |
| 5 | Many working-class British Afro Caribbean girls , it appears , have been adopting a clever and effective strategy which combines resistance and accommodation , instrumentalism and commitment . |
| 6 | then they stop her this tax what she owes them all , well she 's been getting a hundred and forty seven |