Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 2 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 3 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 4 | ‘ For some time now I have been thinking I should marry again . |
| 5 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 6 | I have been wanting it badly . |
| 7 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
| 8 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 9 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been watching you work , ’ Madame Mattli said directly . |
| 11 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I have been expecting it . |
| 14 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 15 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 16 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 17 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 18 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 19 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
| 20 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |
| 21 | I have been saying he is an absolute ‘ bag o shite ’ since day one ( I was so mystified by the signing I was moved to write to the local rag — and they printed it ! ! ) . |
| 22 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 23 | As the newer varieties of catfish have appeared in my local aquatic outlet , I have been purchasing them . |
| 24 | Thus pornographic representations are to be condemned because they reinforce the desires to treat people , and it is usually women , i n the way I have been arguing they are treated . |
| 25 | But since there is obviously a market for the invention of new mountain pursuits , I have been giving it some thought . |
| 26 | The items I have found on such sites have proved to be of great interest , and I have been logging them down very carefully . |
| 27 | I have been delaying you . |
| 28 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 29 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
| 30 | But I followed him , and I have been following him since that day . |