Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 2 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 3 | Erm , yeah she is , but she 's doing , you know these calls I 've been receiving . |
| 4 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 5 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 6 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 7 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 8 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 9 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 10 | ‘ Many months I have been saving , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 14 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 15 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 16 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 17 | ‘ How do you propose to raise the money when for the past months you 've been claiming that it just was n't possible ? ’ |
| 18 | Thus , this survey combined the two methods we have been looking at above . |
| 19 | They are a significant part of the dissident organizations we have been monitoring . |
| 20 | " It is our duty to help foreigners We have been watching you , and would like to help you . " |
| 21 | Over the past few months we 've been advising you to take all the hype about the death of the 386 with a generous pinch of salt . |
| 22 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 23 | Right or the other shapes we 've been talking about . |
| 24 | But other Jews … the ones who have suffered like your zeide … for centuries they have been praying ‘ To next year in Jerusalem ’ and meaning it . |
| 25 | But I 'd be grateful for anything — even some idea of the scale of the funds they 've been filching . |
| 26 | In the western provinces they have been distributing leaflets , many carrying the warning : Pros tvoeu chi , neari tvoeu pouch — ‘ We will make the men into fertiliser , and keep the women for reproduction ’ — to deter collaboration with the government . |
| 27 | read aloud to the class or teacher and talk about the books they have been reading ; |
| 28 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |