Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry — it was a dead cert ! |
| 2 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 3 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 4 | No , the fact is that my trustees have been putting the screws on . |
| 5 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 6 | I would never try on something revealing like a swimming costume in a communal changing room , because when I was bigger I 'd be thinking everyone would be looking at the bulgy bits thinking how fat I was ( well , this is what I thought after I found out what my friends had been saying ) , and now I would feel too self-conscious because other girls would be thinking how skinny I look . |
| 7 | All my friends have been asking me this since I came back from my month in Australia . |
| 8 | ‘ Aye , me and one of my mates have been going round the Forestry Commission tracks up in the hills , goin' round at fifty , skiddin' all over the place like a speedway . ’ |
| 9 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 10 | I have tried to describe the process of setting the direction for our constituent businesses and the company as a whole , which I and my colleagues have been evolving over the past few years . |
| 11 | The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat . |
| 12 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 13 | Their shells had been passing over our positions from time to time all day , with a loud rush that sometimes appeared to shake the trees . |
| 14 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 15 | While newspapers have been asking whether the monarchy will last much longer , her subjects have been rushing to place bets that it wo n't . |
| 16 | conscious … that their peoples have been living together in peace since 1945 ; |
| 17 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 18 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 19 | Their parents had been debating what to do with them , whether to send them abroad or to secretarial school in London . |
| 20 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 21 | However , she points out proudly that her films have been faring better than her rival 's at the box office . |
| 22 | The rate at which its expectations have been rising strongly suggests that by the end of the year , the figure will be even higher than 40,000 , which is already 12% of the 344,000 with which it started the year . |
| 23 | As a result , Syrian forces and their allies have been pounding the Christian half of Beirut with artillery for several weeks . |
| 24 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 25 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
| 26 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 27 | In any case , there was more than enough to do in repairing the faults of the existing system and correcting the injustices which they and their predecessors had been denouncing since the 1920s . |
| 28 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 29 | It was pointed out that from the early '60s onwards some parts of British manufacturing had been facing increased economic difficuIties , in particular because of heightened international competition , which firms had been adopting strategies to counter . |
| 30 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |