Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This has been hanging over us for too long . |
| 3 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 4 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 5 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 7 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 8 | Phyllis Aldworth , 64 , of Mable Avenue , Shildon , has been surviving on them for years . |
| 9 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 10 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 11 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |
| 12 | Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results . |
| 13 | For the past year Maureen Timmins has been corresponding with him in San Quentin jail where he 's waiting execution for the murder of his pregnant wife . |
| 14 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 15 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 16 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 17 | ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand . |
| 18 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 19 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 20 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 21 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 22 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 23 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 24 | She 'd been living with him in Bristol and they planned to marry . |
| 25 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 26 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 27 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 28 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 29 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 30 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |