Example sentences of "[verb] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Washington correspondent Nick Peters has been telling Richard Dalling about the likely issues up for discussion . |
| 2 | Yeah , so that means that people who 've been living here before has has been ripping catalogues off and things like that . |
| 3 | But this follows a year of debate about strategy during which some senior ICI board members appeared unhappy about the way Sir Denys has been running the firm . |
| 4 | A MAN posing as a worker for the charity War on Want has been taking money from unsuspecting people in the Balmoral area . |
| 5 | Mr McNeill said he has had been reading the Belfast Telegraph for years and enjoys doing the crossword first , perusing the television viewing and then gets around to reading the news . |
| 6 | Both factors appear to have been operating ; Chapter Four has shown the greater volume of major services ( such as home help and day centres ) being used by sample members in Newham . |
| 7 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 8 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 9 | Well , now the FADs are galvanised — on record , thanks to Fall producer Craig Leon , who transformed recent comeback single ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ from a bitter mumble into a magnificent , eloquent tirade — but live , they appear to have been studying drama at summer school . |
| 10 | ‘ At the moment the big givers appear to have been giving more and the smaller ones less , ’ Fountain says . |
| 11 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 12 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 13 | Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |
| 15 | Competitors are even reported to have been digging their own wells to beat the water shortage in a bid to land a prize in the competition run in conjunction with the Royal Horticultural Society . |
| 16 | In early February the Senate was reported to have been considering government proposals to reject responsibility for more than $200,000,000 in loans to the Stroessner government from international lending agencies . |
| 17 | Wilko was reported to have been looking at Ronnie earlier this season but nothing came of it . |
| 18 | The Edmond family is reported to have been running crime rings , in a small way , for generations . |
| 19 | However , Smith effectively confirmed Muhlfeit 's assertions that a case is to be brought against an electronic bulletin board service company , which is reported to have been distributing software for free as part of its service to its subscribers . |
| 20 | At one time for example she was reported to have been racing around Melbourne in a brand new pink sports car . |
| 21 | Traders are reported to have been stockpiling the horns in the hope of higher prices should rhinos become extinct . |
| 22 | There had been rumours lately that the new owner was going to stop even local people from using the estate , because poaching had been going on , and some of the deer had been found wounded . |
| 23 | : Fa Some of the country 's leading film starts have been adding their weight to a campaign to keep open an Oxfordshire cinema . |
| 24 | of all divers seen have been moving east up the coast . |
| 25 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 26 | It erm I suppose released a great deal of pressure that seemed to have been building up . |
| 27 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 28 | They seemed to have been stumbling through pitch blackness for hours now . |
| 29 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 30 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |