Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [det] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 2 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 3 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 4 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 5 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 6 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 7 | Predictably , perhaps , one eagle-eyed visitor to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath , where the sculpture is currently showing , rang up to complain that it was n't accurate , that the bowler could n't have been doing all those things . |
| 8 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 9 | But , of course , one had been doing all these things , ad nauseam . |
| 10 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 11 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 12 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 13 | In actual fact , Fabia had been wondering that selfsame thing herself . |
| 14 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 15 | Ca n't believe you 've been watching all this television . |
| 16 | How can I know what you 've been thinking all this time ? |
| 17 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 18 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 19 | I 've been doing all this that looks nice yes ? |
| 20 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 21 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 22 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 23 | So long as you wait , I think you 've been doing this all day . |
| 24 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
| 25 | Like me , you 've been waiting all these years , whether you knew it or not . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |
| 27 | it just goes on , but I said to Sandra where they 've been parking all these cars , Alan over the road he comes out just after six o'clock and goes to London every day and I do n't know how he got his car out with the |
| 28 | We can do a bit more taping thereon , I 'll be just interested to hear what you have been saying all this time , you know ! |
| 29 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 30 | All of us , to a greater or lesser extent , have been doing this all our lives . |