Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 2 | I have also been exploring the Bit Knitter and the range of design options offered by Deluxe Paint , which is a very powerful graphics package . |
| 3 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 4 | I have also been experimenting with more knitted ‘ jewellery ’ . |
| 5 | I have also been plying Mr Andropulos and his friends with strong drink . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ As I have just been telling your nurse , I 'm having trouble listening to a chest . |
| 7 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 8 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 9 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 10 | I have just been watching on television the final scenes from the Royal Shakespeare Company 's performance of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 11 | Indeed , as I write this , I have just been watching on television Lord Denning declaring with self-satisfaction that he puts all such letters straight into the wastepaper basket . |
| 12 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 13 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 14 | His name is not even mentioned in the manual of literary dates with which I have just been refreshing my memory . |
| 15 | ‘ Then perhaps you should take what I have just been saying even more seriously . |
| 16 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
| 17 | I believe I have unconsciously been picking up modern reformed attitudes to nature from television wildlife programmes . |
| 18 | ‘ I have n't been eating much . |
| 19 | I 'm supposed to , watching me diet and I have n't been eating roast potatoes |
| 20 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 21 | I have n't been practicing . |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 23 | I have n't been drinking , ’ Tony switched on his lights , ‘ I just thought there was a theatre out here somewhere . ’ |
| 24 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 25 | Cobalt said irritably : ‘ I have n't been aiming to get you killed and I have n't discussed with anyone what you 've found out . ’ |
| 26 | Well I tell you why I have n't been buying currants lately cos they 've been so blooming expensive ! |
| 27 | Well , I have n't been watching what you were doing ! |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't been seeing anyone . |
| 29 | Then , and so then but I have n't been seeing Mrs . |
| 30 | Well I have n't been using the bus Sandra . |