Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 2 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 3 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 4 | And we can assume , I think , that Fedorov has also been working for them . |
| 5 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 6 | She 'd obviously been counting on me having one , because the chillim was poised at her lips , ready for her to pull in deeply when the surface leaves caught fire . |
| 7 | This one just flung the door open and she 'd either been standing behind it when I knocked or , more likely , she 'd seen me coming . |
| 8 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 10 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 11 | It seemed that Belov had only been waiting for her to ask . |
| 12 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 13 | He had obviously been arguing with it — when Masklin walked up he glared at him and said , ‘ It wo n't do what I tell it ! ’ |
| 14 | These writs were not new and by Edward 's reign the church had long been fighting against their use in such matters as tithes and debts , testaments and matrimony . |
| 15 | He had merely been playing with her . |
| 16 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 17 | Now that he was clear of the hawthorn scent of the hedge and the reek of cattle dung , he became fully aware of what had already been drifting into his nostrils while he was lying among the thorn . |
| 18 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 20 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 21 | By the way , I 've just been glancing through my fixture list , and it seems to me that the real test of our recent good form will come in December/early January . |
| 22 | Er in fact I have now , Mr has found the er the report which has actually got the traffic assessment e that we 've just been referring to which is er no western relief road but with in an inner northern road . |
| 23 | I 've just been thinking about you . " |
| 24 | I 've just been going through it really , the textbook . |
| 25 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 26 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 27 | ( We 've just been talking about you . |
| 28 | Hello my love we 've just been talking about you . |
| 29 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |