Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 2 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
| 3 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 4 | I have been trying a pair of ATP trousers from Calange ( £40 ) , which are well cut , extremely comfortable and function well . |
| 5 | In the past two chapters , I have been discussing the mechanisms of evolution , but have said little about the outcome of the process . |
| 6 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 7 | Recently I have been reading the writings of Matthew Fox , a Dominican who is very popular for his creation spirituality and love of the environment . |
| 8 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 9 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 10 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 11 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 12 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 13 | " I have been serving the Turks , and am looking for better employment . |
| 14 | I have been watching a film . |
| 15 | During the past week I have been watching the Germanic guru , Ralf Dahrendorf , on the box , telling us Britishers just where we are going wrong . |
| 16 | As you know I have been meeting every two weeks with all the staff in the Economic Development Team , and discussing with them each stage of the process . |
| 17 | Anyway , to the issue of the C65 which I have been hearing a lot about recently , but still do n't know exactly what it does . |
| 18 | You see , I have been searching the moors with my telescope , and although I have not actually seen the prisoner , I have seen the person who is taking him food . ’ |
| 19 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 20 | For a long time , I have been advocating a mortgage rescue scheme that would allow people to stay on in their properties on a short let tenancy . |
| 21 | So far , I have been using the term ‘ sex difference ’ without explanation . |
| 22 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
| 23 | I have been using the playhouse for about ten years now and going back to the point that someone made earlier about sex well about erm racism sexism is does n't that count as censorship . |
| 24 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
| 25 | Erm and I have been plugging the line that what underpins Locke 's , what underpins Locke 's general political position is his theology , his basically Calvinist notion of how human individuals are related to God , they are God 's servants sent into the world about his business , that 's what they 're here for and that 's what governs all their obligations , they 're rights and so on . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been badgering the council about this since 1990 . |
| 27 | For some years now I have been researching an area where a certain event took place . |
| 28 | I have been driving the best of the best-selling model , the X2 1.5 hatchback , updated at the last Motor Show . |
| 29 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 30 | I have been attending a class where coins under 10p have been tossed into a jar since October and on counting these there are £8 already . |