Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 2 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 3 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 4 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 5 | Companies that use computers have been connecting them to each other for a decade , often using AT&T 's telephone lines . |
| 6 | You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’ |
| 7 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 9 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 10 | But I followed him , and I have been following him since that day . |
| 11 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 12 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 13 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 14 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 15 | Suddenly , the ineffable goodness of the NEA and public funding is being proclaimed by many whose professional lives have been spent very-nicely-thank-you in NEA-free zones in the private sector . |
| 16 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 17 | On arriving back in your room after a day at college , you should immediately ( do n't leave it until later ) transfer the day 's pages of notes to the individual Shelfolds that have been allocated one to each course or subject . |
| 18 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 19 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 20 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 21 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 22 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 23 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 24 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 25 | First of all , many people have been asking me on this programme in the past what credentials you people on the Council have for setting a budget . |
| 26 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 28 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |