Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been thinking over your suggestion the other day . |
| 2 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
| 3 | I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor . |
| 4 | Other ones here , an anonymous call from Birmingham , I have been beaten up weekly by my ex-husband because he 's been told to pay more . |
| 5 | I have been taped before . |
| 6 | Then , sounding for the first time humorous , even whimsical , " But Comrade Alice , I have been getting daily , sometimes hourly , reports of your transformation of that pigsty there . " |
| 7 | I have been done anyway . ’ |
| 8 | Recently I have been trying out Golfer cardigans . |
| 9 | And now , a splendid piece of country to the west of the Aspe valley which I have been leaving out : the valleys , forests and mountains south of the village of Arette . |
| 10 | Actually , I have been slipping in quite a large amount of social anthropological theory while appearing to be discussing other things , though , at the grand scale level , I still have to justify my claim that a mechanical model of functionalist integration is to be preferred to an organic model . |
| 11 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
| 12 | I HAVE been engaged twice before , but they were only kid 's stuff as I was 17 and 19 at the time . |
| 13 | I have been assured however , this will only happen if it does n't rain ! |
| 14 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 15 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 16 | In talking with people in doubt I have been struck repeatedly by one thing . |
| 17 | In fact in recent visits to schools I have been struck increasingly , not only by the ‘ over-age ’ children but by the considerable number of very young ones , conveniently parked in classrooms so that mothers could take employment , trade or visit . |
| 18 | I will concentrate , together with my wife , on areas I have been dealing in and know well , such as Expressionism , Viennese Art before 1914 , with Schiele and Klimt , history-making design and outstanding drawings and watercolours . |
| 19 | Physically I have been pushed harder , made to ski faster and longer than ever before . |
| 20 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 23 | I have been blotted out from the world . |
| 24 | I have been discovering how much travel writing relies on metaphor to describe the unfamiliar , using an imagery that the folks back home will recognise . |
| 25 | Yeah I , I er thought about self defence but I keep thinking about things like that 's fine but if someone has a knife or a gun , the one might of self defence that I have been trained on or taught in can possibly help and I ca n't really see it as being very very helpful because |
| 26 | I have been made out to be a liar but I am determined people will know the truth . |
| 27 | So far in this chapter I have been gathering together pieces of analysis . |
| 28 | Mr Ormerod added : ‘ I have been contacted personally by five or six towns in Scotland who would like to follow our example so there is a tremendous activity on that front at the moment . ’ |
| 29 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 30 | Helena , who earns £150 a week as a machine operator , said : ‘ I have been treated abominably , like an irresponsible child , not a customer who made a very small mistake . ’ |