Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [verb] [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 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 12 | I am to be dominated by the truth because I have been made a Christian by the operation of the Holy Spirit within . |
| 13 | I have been made a wet-nurse , |
| 14 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not only am I forced to share bed and board with a woman for whom I feel nothing but disgust , but for my pains I have been branded a disreputable opportunist by all and sundry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " I have been serving the Turks , and am looking for better employment . |
| 19 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 20 | I have been watching a film . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 23 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 24 | Finally I have been given a gearbox with the number 26107266 on top , 22 stamped on the right between gearbox and transfer box and Marshall 219467 on the side of the transfer box . |
| 25 | Q I have been given a poinsettia as an early Christmas present which I am determined to keep healthy . |
| 26 | I am disabled with arthritis and I have been given a Singer KE2400 , the green one . |
| 27 | ‘ February 10 — I have been given a dog — a mongrel pup called ‘ Lady ’ , and I have bought a wizard little pony and trap for £70 — a trim grey called ‘ Lucky ’ . |
| 28 | I have arrived , I have been given a number by the Church of Scotland |
| 29 | I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic . |
| 30 | Members of Schedule I have been given a choice of remaining in that Schedule with an NRA of 60 , or of opting for the new , improved , Schedule II . |