Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you can just say on that , that that excludes any resources for the economic development action plan and for the time being resources for that initiative are being held centrally into Personnel and Finance sub-committee 's budget and as the action plans develop then money will be released from a contingency there to er go to the Planning Department or to whichever department that has actually been implementing that particular part of the action . |
| 2 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 3 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 've just been agreeing that what 's between us is personal , have n't we ? ’ |
| 5 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 6 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 7 | But if , if he had n't been doing that |
| 8 | so you know we 've actually been doing that is not new as far as we 're concerned |
| 9 | He 's obviously been doing that since your pregnancy , yet you 've only just begun to notice how little he confides in you . |
| 10 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |
| 11 | It would be easy to demonstrate , moreover , that all our judges , including those who decided our sample cases , have really been following that advice all along . |
| 12 | Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence — as though women have n't been doing that for centuries . |