Example sentences of "have be [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 2 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 3 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 4 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |
| 5 | However , it would seem that Greg Martin , your mother 's companion when the yacht was lost , has been fooling us these past twenty years . |
| 6 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 7 | The council 's housing officer says she 's got to go back to her flat with an injunction , otherwise she 's making herself intentionally homeless , and he says the arrears are £4OO , that 's impossible , the DHSS has been paying it direct ! |
| 8 | I said my wife has been giving me two and three bits every day thinking you 're having one of them . |
| 9 | ‘ And that 's why that damned woman has been giving me such strange knowing looks ! |
| 10 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 11 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 12 | Big fucking deal , we thought , we 'd been robbing them blind |
| 13 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 14 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 15 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 16 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 17 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 18 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 19 | ‘ It seems to have been following me all my life . ’ |
| 20 | It was just as Joe had been telling her all her life . |
| 21 | Meola accused Arsenal striker Ian Wright of ‘ talking trash ’ and claimed England players had been calling him fat in exchanges as bitter as the Boston Tea Party . |
| 22 | Finally , one of the doctors who had been advising him prescribed complete rest of the voice for a full two weeks before his next recital . |
| 23 | no I do n't like them at all he says , now my doctor had been given me this one |
| 24 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 25 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 26 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 27 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 28 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 29 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 30 | It was Michael who asked the question that had been troubling them all . |