Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 2 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 3 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 4 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been coming as a mere visitor . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been doing as you suggested the other day — putting the patients first . ’ |
| 7 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 8 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 9 | Joshua grabbed Hyacinth by the arm — she had been looking as if she were about to attack her victim 's other eye — and steered her away . |
| 10 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 11 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 12 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 13 | This facet of conversational discourse quite naturally leads to a consideration of the individual speaker 's topics within what we have been discussing as the conversational topic . |
| 14 | Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’ |
| 15 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 16 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 17 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 18 | Half of the salary disappeared in mess fees and for the headquarter 's servants , but Sharpe still felt rich , and it was a far better reward than the two shillings and ninepence a day that he had been receiving as a half-pay lieutenant . |
| 19 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 20 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 21 | He was more elated than when he had been shooting as an international for Great Britain : ‘ It 's like trying to get eight draws on the football pools — anybody can win . |
| 22 | In any case , young Gavin can always fill his shoes if he does n't appear — he 's been acting as understudy . |
| 23 | According to that , he 's been working as a barman . ’ |
| 24 | Our latest information is that he 's been working as a waiter at a bar called Flamingo . ’ |