Example sentences of "and have been [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bea , 68 , wants to move to London from Hollywood , and has been trying out future homes over here . |
| 2 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 3 | He hung his medal in the shop , decided it would be nice to have a few more , and has been pounding out the miles since . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy is never at a loss for something to say , and has been sounding off about some of the current bees in his bonnet . |
| 5 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 6 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 7 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 8 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 9 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |