Example sentences of "so [adv] [pers pn] have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little !
2 The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the .
3 So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ .
4 So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’
5 So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy .
6 So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites .
7 So far we have been discussing the role of activity in the development of referential thinking , the development of the knowledge that ‘ there is a world out there ’ .
8 So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication .
9 So far we have been discussing behaviour within groups .
10 So far we have been presupposing a single agent responding to a present situation and trying to guide his spontaneity by reason .
11 So far we have been raising rather large issues in an abstracted and certainly general fashion which , it is to be hoped , will become clearer as they are filled out in what follows by way of the discussion of specific methods of data collection .
12 So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates .
13 So far we have been talking about the reciprocity of all discourse in the broadest of terms , connecting it to the mechanisms of dialogue only generally by saying that monologues are often constructed with the receiver in mind .
14 So far we have been describing the ways in which the processes of socialisation and internalisation come to bind societies together and reproduce practices and institutions .
15 So far I have been suggesting ways in which the Free Church benefited from the political activities of its founder and other leading members .
16 So far I have been working " backwards ' from the specific deictic terms and elements of the poem to contextual possibilities and other pragmatic considerations .
17 So far I have been arguing that the essential subject matter of all kinds of anthropology is the diversity of mankind , both biological and cultural , while my own particular concern , as a social anthropologist , is with moral ( cultural ) diversity within a matrix of ( approximate ) species-wide biological uniformity .
18 But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it .
19 So far you have been finding the highest number that can be divided into each example without leaving a remainder .
20 Just as well so late I 've been waiting for to come .
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