Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 2 | I have been considering this matter for nearly two years , but my mind moves slowly ; I dislike publicity , and I had hoped that somebody else might lead the way . |
| 3 | I hope to visit relevant training programmes in the Philippines and Southern Africa , where possible participating as a trainee , in order to learn from the experience of those who have been undertaking this work for some years ; and to identify elements in the training processes which may be transferrable or adaptable to a UK situation . |
| 4 | Firstly , I have been buying this magazine on and off since the first time that Elite ( by Firebird ) was reviewed . |
| 5 | Hundreds of people have been auditioning this week for the chance to be one of the faces in the crowd . |
| 6 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 7 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |
| 8 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 9 | Siward said , ‘ I 'd be a fool if I did , seeing that you and Alfgar have been cultivating each other for thirty years . |
| 10 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 11 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Throughout the 1980s more people have been working each year in Darlington . |
| 13 | Analysts said Mr Muawad faced the task of uniting militia leaders who have been fighting each other for 14 years . |
| 14 | As they have been fighting each other on much of it , any agreement to stop must represent progress . |
| 15 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 16 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 17 | Alexei Pavlov , a marketing manager with the Ukraina Bank and Slava Tkatchenko , head of international payments at Gradobank , have been spending some time at Girobank to see how UK banks operate . |
| 18 | I am sure that there is common ground with my hon. Friend , because I accept that we need steadily to improve training — indeed , we have been putting more money into that . |
| 19 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |
| 20 | Recently several independent groups , including our own at Birkbeck College , have been investigating this model in further detail and have shown how it is possible to calculate explicit particle trajectories in various contexts , thus opening the possibility of understanding quantum phenomena in terms of the behaviour of individual particles . |
| 21 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 22 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 23 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |