Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 2 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 4 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
| 5 | Here , the 212-mile Southern Uplands Way which has been following the same route since Caldons Wood , heads further eastwards . |
| 6 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 7 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 8 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 9 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 10 | Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 11 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 12 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 13 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 14 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
| 15 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 16 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 17 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 18 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been thinking the same thing . |
| 20 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 21 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 22 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 23 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 24 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 25 | Er this is quite commonly accepted as er in use in many places and I think my our colleagues on the other side of the table have been using the same basic modelling methodology . |
| 26 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 27 | ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’ |
| 28 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 29 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 30 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |