Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 2 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 3 | We 've been mentioning this good housekeeping |
| 4 | I 've been seeing these funny yellow ones ! |
| 5 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 6 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 10 | You 've been doing those alright have n't you . |
| 11 | I 've been going half crazy with worry wondering what on earth had happened to you . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been practising this mega dance routine . |
| 13 | ‘ So you 've been paying this other man for three months . |
| 14 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 15 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 16 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |
| 17 | I 've been requesting that small courtesy for weeks ! |
| 18 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 19 | I know you 've been investigating that horrible Martin man , even though you 've tried to keep it quiet , so here you are . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It can not be denied that in the face of recession , publishers have been exploring all possible avenues for book sales . ’ |
| 21 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 22 | Recently we have been learning that young animals , puppy dogs , even a giraffe , brought up exclusively by humans will be unable later on to identify themselves or establish emotional contact with their own species . |
| 23 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 24 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 25 | Then she thought perhaps Pat is dead now , perhaps he has died even now while we have been watching this dreadful absurdity . |
| 26 | That is one good reason why we have been supporting several non-governmental projects in the region and why we have made representations to presidents and other leaders about the state of children in those countries . |
| 27 | Many of you will recall the ovation given to Honegger 's King David at the ‘ 87 festival — from which time we have been planning this epic performance to feature , once again , Brighton Festival Chorus . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 30 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |