Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 2 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 4 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 5 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 6 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
| 7 | Here , the 212-mile Southern Uplands Way which has been following the same route since Caldons Wood , heads further eastwards . |
| 8 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 9 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 10 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 11 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 12 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 13 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 14 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 15 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 16 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 17 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 18 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 19 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been thinking the same thing . |
| 21 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 24 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 25 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 26 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 27 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 28 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 29 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 30 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |