Example sentences of "but [pron] have [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but I 've been taking out , cos we had a rogue living above us you see , and I thought well he 's one of these that 'll take owt if he can get it you see . |
| 2 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 4 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 5 | They have no speech beyond grunts , but they 've been surviving out here . ’ |
| 6 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 7 | But he 's been saving up . |
| 8 | ‘ I would if I could — but he 's been flying back and forth to Australia like a damned Yo-Yo ! |
| 9 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 10 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 11 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 12 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |