Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 2 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 3 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 5 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 7 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 8 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 9 | Because it may be that you th you , you look back and say , Christ , we 've been using those standards since nineteen seventy . |
| 10 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 11 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been reading strange books again , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo . |
| 16 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 21 | As your float approaches the section where you 've been getting most bites , you dress the line again , following the downstream progress of your float with the tip of your rod . |
| 22 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |
| 25 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 26 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 27 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 28 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
| 30 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |