Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 2 | I 'd thought you 'd been getting exercise in . |
| 3 | Mr Wildish said : ‘ I would n't have thought she had been sleeping rough . ’ |
| 4 | If she had n't known better she 'd have thought he 'd been drinking . |
| 5 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 6 | As you 've heard we 've been cutting costs pretty significantly over the last couple of years erm what we 're talking about is three thousand people having been er made redundant over the two and a half years and as we were saying earlier substantial redundancy costs have had to be borne . |
| 7 | Halfway through the letter , Bruno said in German : ‘ Ah , he is a major in their Army , ’ and then smiled hastily at Maxim because he had forgotten they had been speaking German earlier . |
| 8 | She did n't like the sound of the ‘ second skin' bit at all , and the way he had kidnapped her had been terrifying . |
| 9 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 10 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 11 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 12 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |
| 13 | But ever since you 've gone they 've been conspiring against me , plotting , and — ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |
| 15 | He said all right , you have admitted you 've been sleeping so out you go . |