Example sentences of "that [pron] have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 11 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 12 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 16 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 17 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 18 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 19 | It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ . |
| 20 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 21 | Evidence abounds that he has been approaching the top of his game for the event , following up his second place in the Tournament Players ' Championship , in Florida recently , with a sixth at New Orleans on Sunday . |