Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 2 | Somebody has n't been figuring too well , Jackson . |
| 3 | Improvident Costa Rica , which has lately been trying to behave better , was not treated in May 1990 with the respect accorded to Venezuela . |
| 4 | Mr Wyatt said action would have to be taken at the Total Power Tools offshoot , which has not been performing well . |
| 5 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 6 | Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy . |
| 7 | To a degree some of the rise in prices resulted from market makers scrambling to acquire shares to meet investor demands but the Conservative victory has restored confidence in the City , something which has definitely been missing over the last few weeks . |
| 8 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 9 | 'E seems ter be runnin' round wiv a right rough crowd . |
| 10 | Anyone who thinks otherwise is living in a fool 's paradise . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's always going to be like that here and anyone who thinks differently is living in cloud cuckoo land . ’ |
| 12 | Welcoming the news , independent councillor Austen Lennon , who has also been refusing to drink the tap water in his Hazeldene Drive home , said it was ‘ not before time ’ . |
| 13 | Paul Parker , United 's England defender who has also been missing through injury , hopes to prove his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup final in a reserve game against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane this evening . |
| 14 | TobyBalding will have an interesting second-string in Romany King , who has reportedly been working well at Whitcombe . |
| 15 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 16 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 17 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 18 | Alison , a PE student at Brighton University , emerged from the same mini-rugby structure at Bridgehaugh as Kenny Logan — who was capped at full-back for Scotland in the second Test against Australia last summer — and last season 's Scotland Under-21 No 8 , Gareth Flockhart , who has recently been honing his skills , both sporting and agricultural , in New Zealand . |
| 19 | A contributor to the Funeral Service Journal who declares himself to be ‘ a devoted and qualified embalmer and tutor ’ is a funeral director who has recently been giving advice to readers . |
| 20 | I remember sitting courtside during the 1976 final , potentially a classic encounter between arch-baseliner , the American Harold Solomon , ( who has recently been working with Mary Joe Fernandez ) and Italian ‘ heart throb ’ of the classic tennis mould , Adriano Panatta . |
| 21 | Phil , who has recently been working in the Department of Computer Science at the University , has now left for his 10 week stint in Namibia . |
| 22 | Said that sh she has n't been eating and she |
| 23 | She has n't been eating and that 's unusual |
| 24 | ‘ She has n't been lookin' too well lately , ’ he murmured . |
| 25 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
| 26 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 27 | You 're doing brilliant in French , absolutely brilliant , she has n't been doing it long . |
| 28 | You 're sure she has n't been making wine out of your dandelions ? |
| 29 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 30 | Merlyn said : ‘ We ca n't have her going around saying what she has just been saying . |