Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 2 | Topix Abteilungsrechner & Workstations magazine reports that an announcement regarding the B20 , on which Siemens Nixdorf has been pinning so many hopes , was planned originally for the autumn . |
| 3 | apparently she does n't know why they sacked her she said , they sacked apparently something to do with she 'd been asking too many questions or something and but she |
| 4 | If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams . |
| 5 | It was n't jerky , just a little unsettling , and Maxim might not have been asking so many questions if he 'd been able to sit back and watch the countryside flow past . |
| 6 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 7 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 8 | Bernice decided that Ell had been watching too many films . |
| 9 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I think you 've been watching too many movies . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I think you 've been reading too many thrillers , Superintendent . ’ |
| 12 | " And you 've been reading too many novels . |
| 13 | Should we not first see how this or should we say , look let's go for it now because I mean you know , we 've been going now some years , what another year because |