Example sentences of "that [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 9 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 10 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 14 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 19 | 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 . |