Example sentences of "that [pron] have been [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 2 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 3 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 4 | Tam Dalyell is wrong to say that I have been predicting a total European ban on lead in petrol as from June this year ( Forum . |
| 5 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 6 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 7 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 8 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 9 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 10 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 11 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 12 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 13 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 14 | Dawson was aware that she 'd been combating a bout of ill-temper since he 'd arrived . |
| 15 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 16 | I do n't wish to hear from them on my return that you 've been airing the kind of sentiments I heard from you today . " |
| 17 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 18 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 19 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 20 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 21 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 22 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 23 | After hearing that they had been attending a high school graduation party , they were released by the judge on the condition that they were each driven to their parents ' home exactly as they appeared in court — with only a blanket for |
| 24 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 25 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 26 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 27 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 28 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 29 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 30 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |