Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light from the big bang , though , has come much farther — it has been travelling since the time , less than 1m years after the moment of creation , when the universe became thin enough for radiation emitted by one atom to be unlikely to hit another . |
| 2 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |
| 4 | Charles had been directing at the time and cast him as Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer . |
| 5 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |