Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 2 | It is not always the child who has been building that does the packing away . |
| 3 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 4 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 5 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 6 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 7 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 8 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 12 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 13 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 14 | Could she really have been reading that ? he wondered , looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion . |
| 15 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 16 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 17 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 18 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 19 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 20 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 21 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 22 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 23 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 24 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 25 | doing is taking that out , but |
| 26 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 27 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 28 | The most difficult part of learning to read is learning that learning to read is worth the effort involved , and of being aware of the rewards of reading . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , yer do n't mean you 'ave been doin' that , do yer ? ’ |
| 30 | What yo you do is using that bracket there |