Example sentences of "[indef pn] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Kenny Shields is n't allowed to buy players soon , instead of being expected to rely on free transfers etc , then it is going to be a very , very long season for all at Carrick when everyone has been looking forward to so much . |
| 2 | Yes , I know everyone has been drinking Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon for ages , but Bulgaria has much more to offer , with original grape varieties such as Melnik , Gamza and Mavrud which are not grown elsewhere . |
| 3 | Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long . |
| 4 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 5 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs yeah Shrimp , you got good English ! |
| 6 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs . |
| 7 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 8 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 9 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 10 | We have been taking a lot of coal out these last few days , everyone has been putting the hours in . |
| 11 | Everyone has been asking this questions since it was announced that Holiday '91 Presenter Anne Gregg will be leaving the programme later this month at her BBC bosses ' request . |
| 12 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 13 | If a pet cat has access to the garage where someone has been filling the car 's radiator system with antifreeze at the onset of winter , the animal may see a small puddle on the garage floor , where some has spilled . |
| 14 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 15 | ‘ I am convinced someone has been trying to poison them , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 17 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 18 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 19 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 20 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 21 | People always ask , ‘ Why did you come back ? ’ when someone has been living abroad . |
| 22 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 24 | ‘ Someone has been playing a stupid game with me . |
| 25 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 26 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 27 | Next door , in the house on the right , someone had been watching the visitor 's arrival from the side of an upstairs window , a middle-aged woman with a startling mass of red hair piled high above a powdered face with a well rouged mouth and plucked and pencilled eyebrows , a woman dressed in a dark crimson gown , of the kind which some years before would have been described in fashionable circles as ‘ tea gowns ’ . |
| 28 | She could smell the wood-smoke : someone had been trying to light a fire . |
| 29 | Booking into the hotel for another night , Kelly was told that someone had been trying to call her . |
| 30 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |