Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 2 | The buy-out company — premier Brands — has since been doing well and Sir Adrian is confident Cadbury 's shareholders will have nothing to complain about when the new company does eventually go to the market . |
| 3 | Dominic Arnold trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , both in television and at Glasgow 's Citizens ' Theatre . |
| 4 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 5 | ‘ She has obviously been practising hard , ’ said a BDA spokeswoman . |
| 6 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 7 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 8 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 9 | It has always been puzzling enough that the proportion of men in gynaecology is higher than in any virtually any other specialty , as if detachment were an advantage in this field . |
| 10 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 11 | TobyBalding will have an interesting second-string in Romany King , who has reportedly been working well at Whitcombe . |
| 12 | Managers say Stoke Mandeville has simply been treating too many people . |
| 13 | When the gloom lifts , Hungary 's famous pessimists will be surprised to discover how much has actually been going right . |
| 14 | If anything , I tend to believe that it will make you unhappy : either immediately unhappy , as you are impaled by incompatibility , or unhappy later , when the woodworm has quietly been gnawing away for years and the bishop 's throne collapses . |
| 15 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 16 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 17 | They 'd all been amusing enough , in their way . |
| 18 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 19 | But I suppose if you lose your job , and your dignity … and he 'd probably been drinking too much , which they say does n't help . |
| 20 | We 'd really been looking forward to our trip to the Brecon Beacons . |
| 21 | Because , you know , I 'd never been skiing before , so I went out all togged up , with like , my tights sort of , like , you know , thermal tights and you know , pair of track suits , sort of bottoms , plus plastic overtop and then I had like , sort of thermal top on , plus the that 's a sort of like , T-shirt , plus the polo-neck plus a jumper , plus a sort of like erm , a sort of sheepskin waistcoat and , and jacket and then this plastic thing over the top . |
| 22 | I 've only been standin' 'ere twenty minutes , 'aven' I ? |
| 23 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 24 | The BR spokesman said an immediate inquiry had been launched but the barriers , warning lights and lights illuminating signs had all been working properly . |
| 25 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 26 | She and Rufus and Adam himself had all been putting forward the names of people they knew who might want to be part of a commune , likely people of the right sort of age and the right sort of temperament . |
| 27 | An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property . |
| 28 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 29 | She said in a statement that he and his close friend Gary Burn and one or two others were in a boisterous mood , and had obviously been drinking heavilly . |
| 30 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |