Example sentences of "that [pron] have [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I wanted to ask erm I ga I assume that everyone has read through the bumf that I 've been merrily distributing . |
| 2 | Within days , for instance , I 'd broken up with my girlfriend , because things came to the surface that I had been neatly burying away for years . |
| 3 | My mother would answer inaudibly , but it would be evident from my father 's all-too-audible answering tirade that she had been gently remonstrating . |
| 4 | Moire Rooney asked with a gentle smile , and Patrick immediately knew that she had been deliberately keeping Jane in the kitchen while Tom spoke his piece . |
| 5 | Mitch did not know where she was either and seemed to think that she had been deliberately keeping out of his way . |
| 6 | Yeah , what about the fucking night that we did two and a bit hours and the other little bits and pieces that we 've been fucking doing it , |
| 7 | The result is that we have been steadily betraying mentally-ill people for at least a century . |
| 8 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 9 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 10 | unemployed people will have to provide evidence every week to prove that they have been actively seeking work ; |
| 11 | It worried her that he 'd been secretly observing her . |
| 12 | He was referring to print-outs that had enabled the US Congress to discover that he had been secretly bombing Cambodia . |
| 13 | They fell against the desk that he had been previously sitting on . |
| 14 | Salata was arrested at 12.05am outside the development of luxury homes , centred on a polo club , after reports from security guards that he had been repeatedly coming to the south gate . |
| 15 | It was a slow and painful realization , as when he had told me that he had been deliberately tempting me to have sex with him all along … . |
| 16 | Other shock cases include Hector MacNeal , an underwriter from London , who discovered that he had been accidentally withdrawing cash from someone else 's account . |