Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been thinking over your suggestion the other day . |
| 2 | I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor . |
| 3 | Recently I have been trying out Golfer cardigans . |
| 4 | And now , a splendid piece of country to the west of the Aspe valley which I have been leaving out : the valleys , forests and mountains south of the village of Arette . |
| 5 | Actually , I have been slipping in quite a large amount of social anthropological theory while appearing to be discussing other things , though , at the grand scale level , I still have to justify my claim that a mechanical model of functionalist integration is to be preferred to an organic model . |
| 6 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 7 | I will concentrate , together with my wife , on areas I have been dealing in and know well , such as Expressionism , Viennese Art before 1914 , with Schiele and Klimt , history-making design and outstanding drawings and watercolours . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 10 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 11 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 12 | Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year … |
| 13 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 14 | Is he aware that I have been carrying out my own investigations , including a trip through the channel ? |
| 15 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
| 16 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have been going out of my mind thinking about you . ’ |
| 18 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 19 | I have been going out with him for three months . |
| 20 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 21 | Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income . |
| 22 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 23 | Silicon Amnesia Sir : I bought your magazine for the first time this month and was very annoyed that I have been missing out on an excellent value piece of publishing catering to beginners ( me ) and experienced alike . |
| 24 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 25 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 26 | It serves 38 million vending cups a year , most of which have been ending up in bins . |
| 27 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 28 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 29 | ‘ The tourism infrastructure is there , with the new Tower Museum , the craft village and the new interpretive centre , as well as all the events and festivals which have been going on . |
| 30 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |