Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been plotting all morning how to get you back again . |
| 2 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 3 | I have been considering this . ’ |
| 4 | I have been considering this matter for nearly two years , but my mind moves slowly ; I dislike publicity , and I had hoped that somebody else might lead the way . |
| 5 | But he added : ‘ That said , I must say I am extremely pessimistic about the future of the plant , given all that I have been hearing these last few days . ’ |
| 6 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been drinking all my life , ’ explained Lili . |
| 8 | Firstly , I have been buying this magazine on and off since the first time that Elite ( by Firebird ) was reviewed . |
| 9 | I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability . |
| 10 | I have been doing this for over ten years . |
| 11 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 12 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 13 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 14 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 15 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 16 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 17 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 18 | No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James . |
| 19 | I have been waiting each day to hear if you had decided to marry that idiot in England . ’ |
| 20 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 22 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 23 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 24 | Is the Minister aware that I have been asking this question , mostly of him , for the past 13 years and that that reply reflects how serious is youth unemployment in Scotland ? |
| 25 | Well , I have been following this mailing list and have yet to post a message , but am sad to see that it is under these circumstances that I post my first … |
| 26 | If you have been thinking this way , practise having height in hand and using the airbrakes on the base leg . |
| 27 | As you have been reading these thoughts , have you come to the decision that you need to be reconciled , to members of your family ? |
| 28 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you fucking well know that the enemy have been mortaring the village green for the past four or five minutes while you have been playing those fucking bagpipes ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ So , you have been visiting all your ladies in the neighbourhood ? ’ |