Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one of the happiest jobs I ever had was working in a place called Lonsdale Sports . |
| 2 | ‘ I really have been trying my best — ’ |
| 3 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
| 4 | As she looked in her cupboard , trying to control her rising temper , she realised she really had been neglecting her wardrobe — well , certain aspects of it , she told herself as she pushed the smart business suits to one side . |
| 5 | Could she really have been reading that ? he wondered , looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion . |
| 6 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 7 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 8 | But they too have been losing this battle . |
| 9 | Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans . |
| 10 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 11 | He therefore has been living with friends , sleeping on their floors , for the last few weeks , because he 's complied explicitly with the conditions of his bail . |
| 12 | He too had been waiting , he thought , but he had not realized before that it was for Cora-Beth . |
| 13 | The last thing I heard you say before I left the receiver to its own devices was something like ‘ Some of us here have been reading your books … ’ |