Example sentences of "have [adv] be [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 2 | ‘ We have not been running this campaign as an entertainment for our dear friends in the press and broadcasting media . |
| 3 | ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’ |
| 4 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 5 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |
| 6 | ‘ We in BP and Unipart have also been introducing each other to potential customers in the Ukraine and Russia . ’ |
| 7 | It would be easy to demonstrate , moreover , that all our judges , including those who decided our sample cases , have really been following that advice all along . |
| 8 | Magistrates in Didcot have today been hearing more cases against non-payers of the poll tax . |
| 9 | Are you sure you have n't been taking any drugs , tablets , medicines of any sort — ’ she shook her head violently , but refused to meet his gaze ‘ — or any antibiotics during the last six months ? ’ |
| 10 | Mm , I have n't been shopping this weekend . |
| 11 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |
| 12 | Though I have n't been testing these boots for long before writing this review , initial impressions are very favourable . |