Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [art] [det] " 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 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 5 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 6 | A hard-working Society member , for many years a member of the National Display Team and nore recently of the Surrey and Sussex team , she has been putting the latter through their paces for ‘ In the Pink ’ , the ball item first performed at last year 's Reunion . |
| 7 | [ 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Here , the 212-mile Southern Uplands Way which has been following the same route since Caldons Wood , heads further eastwards . |
| 9 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 10 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 11 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 12 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 13 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 14 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 15 | Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 16 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
| 19 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
| 23 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 27 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been thinking the same thing . |
| 29 | We can work using the x-form faster than we can the sequence form simply because we 've been using the former for years . |
| 30 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |