Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 2 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 3 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 4 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 5 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 6 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 7 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 8 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 9 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 10 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 11 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 12 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 13 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 14 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
| 15 | p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid . |
| 16 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 17 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 18 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 19 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 21 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 22 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 23 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 24 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 25 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 26 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 27 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 28 | I also find that he 's been quoting some twelve hour figures and the only ones I have , you may have them er Mr chairman , are from the H and T C report in July of last year where they forecasted four thousand nine hundred on the A six five eight and achieve eight thousa for nineteen ninety six and achieved eight thousand one hundred now . |
| 29 | Cheryl 's been saying some odd things . |