Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 2 | Bea , 68 , wants to move to London from Hollywood , and has been trying out future homes over here . |
| 3 | Rather than making the observations that were originally planned , the telescope has been trying out various options to see what is possible , and at the same time producing pictures and results to reassure the public that all is not lost . |
| 4 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 5 | Centre-half Ian Marshall , who has been playing up front since the start of last month , is out for three weeks after breaking a finger and Neil McDonald is likely to miss the Middlesbrough game with hamstring trouble . |
| 6 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 7 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 8 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 9 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 10 | ‘ Ought we to try to get away ? ’ whispered Snodgrass , whose mind had been going along similar paths . |
| 11 | For several years France had been carrying out nuclear weapons tests on the remote Pacific island of Moruroa in the Pacific . |
| 12 | A UK-based Indonesian human rights campaigning group , Tapol , claimed in its June bulletin that the army had been carrying out public executions of alleged members of the Free Aceh Movement ( FAM ) in northern Sumatra . |
| 13 | Wallace , who had been playing up front with McClair to no devastating effect , moved out to his usual position on the left wing , with similar results . |
| 14 | Walsh , as fund-raising co-ordinator , and Hayling , as ‘ poacher turned gamekeeper ’ ( as Everett described him ) , had been sounding out potential ‘ movement ’ investors for months . |
| 15 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 16 | From the start of this week the savings institutions have been handing over magnetic tapes to the Inland Revenue giving details of all interest-earning accounts , however small . |
| 17 | The vultures have been buying up other bonds likely to be similarly treated . |
| 18 | Previously , only trade in new horn was banned but , with a single horn fetching as much as £30,000 , Chinese dealers have been buying up big game trophies for export to the Far East . |
| 19 | Sudden plagues of these creatures have been occurring over recent years which settle upon living reefs and devour the coral polyps . |
| 20 | Talks broke down today between the Soviet and Japanese delegations who have been negotiating over recent territorial clashes over culture-krill-harvesting operations off the island of Sakhalin . |
| 21 | Where significant innovations have happened , it is astonishing how often through history other individuals or groups have been working along parallel lines of thought . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I can confirm we have been carrying out certain inquiries , including the forensic re-examination of material . ’ |
| 23 | FOR almost three years John Major and Norman Lamont have been trotting out smug assurances that all was well in Tory Britain . |
| 24 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 25 | ‘ But if you look at their records they have been knocking over leading Test match sides in this way for years . |
| 26 | I 've actually read it three timesThe idea was born in an Oxford workshop where David Pollard and Susan Nelson have been knocking out printed copies and computer discs since April . |
| 27 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |