Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 2 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 3 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 4 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 6 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 7 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 8 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 9 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 10 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 11 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 12 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 13 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 14 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 15 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 16 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 17 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 18 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 19 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 20 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 21 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 22 | Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 25 | " You 've been reading that hook , " Graham said . |
| 26 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 27 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 28 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 29 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 30 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |