Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . "
2 Zambia has been telling me a lot , you know . ’
3 The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago .
4 Our own expert Mandy Johnson has been telling you the wisdom of physiotherapy for many , many months and will continue for some time to come .
5 A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes !
6 ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time .
7 ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments .
8 One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’
9 OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little !
10 In fact she 'd been repeating them every mile or so .
11 I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story .
12 You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie .
13 so Richard 's crying because he 'd been hitting him the face .
14 But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there .
15 this boy who 'd been doing it a few years .
16 As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted .
17 A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth .
18 I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have .
19 Floy , who had been cutting himself a slice of ham , looked up , because there was a lick of anticipatory pleasure in Goibniu 's tone .
20 But I see there 's blood sausage , ’ he said , and sent them such a terrible leery grin , that Snodgrass , who had been cutting himself a slice from this , which he had innocently thought was something like the spicy Renascian liver-and-wine-roll , recoiled and snatched his hand back as if he had been burnt .
21 The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time .
22 She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor .
23 Pilger had been giving him a hard time .
24 Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap .
25 He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor .
26 Charity 's mind , that formidable intellect that had been governing her every action for years , reminded her of the crush of student loans she had to pay .
27 I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . "
28 I 've been promising myself a drink for the last couple of hours … ’
29 They 've been calling me a baboon and shit .
30 I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month .
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