Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 2 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 3 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 4 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 5 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 6 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 7 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 8 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 9 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 10 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 11 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 12 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 13 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 14 | Now obviously that requires a more precise working knowledge of newspapers and the other media , what they want , when and how they need it , what the sort of particular publication is , you 've been discussing some of that and we can perhaps go into some of that in , in a bit more detail a bit later on . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |
| 16 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 17 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |
| 18 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 19 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 20 | Detectives hunting the rapist who attacked a young woman at a Nottingham f music festival at the weekend , have been interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |