Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 2 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 3 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 4 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 5 | Well actually what I 've been I 've been taking two before I go to bed at night . |
| 6 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 7 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 8 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 9 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 10 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 12 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry , I 've been having one or two bad dreams lately . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat . |
| 16 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 17 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 19 | Fleet Street , which has been spending millions for years trying get the formula right , holds the opposite point of view . |
| 20 | Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced . |
| 21 | This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test . |
| 22 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 23 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 24 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 25 | Flushed with the success of Operation Goldenrod , in late summer , Hurley and his CIA colleagues lent Sami Jafaar and other members of his clan to the DEA office in Bern , Switzerland , for Operation Polar Cap , aimed at closing down an arms/drugs-dealing business run by Arman Jirayer Haser , a CIA asset and long-time associate of the Syrian cartel , who had been making millions out of secret American arms shipments to Iraq . |
| 26 | Opposition leaders called for an investigation after Namaliu , who had been trailing 1,600 votes behind rival candidate Oscar Tammur at an early stage of the count , secured victory following an unexplained power blackout while the final ballot boxes were being processed . |
| 27 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 28 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 29 | Up to now we 've been covering one part of the neural networks . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |