Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 2 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |
| 3 | Aside from dealing , as I have been doing , with one of the major subjects and themes of Cuzco painting , an inventory could be made of ways in which painters departed from European models , or from academic notions of excellence . |
| 4 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 5 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 6 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 7 | The present conjuncture is uniquely dreadful because , as I have been predicting emphatically for at least two years , we now have , all at the same time , unemployment rising towards three million , falling output and investment , and a balance of payments that is still in substantial deficit . |
| 8 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 9 | As you have been reading these thoughts , have you come to the decision that you need to be reconciled , to members of your family ? |
| 10 | Do you mean to tell me that the girls ask you for such stuff as you have been reading ? |
| 11 | I wo n't even agree to having you partnering me at all these functions I have to attend as part of the job — and I 'll take whatever trouble you try to make for me — if you carry on treating me as you have been doing . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you really expect to stay healthy , living rough as you have been doing , not eating enough , I expect — ’ |
| 13 | It is also right that , as we have been urging , the asylum claims should be examined more expeditiously . |
| 14 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 15 | The former , as we have been seeing , are ideas of material things , such as sheep , or of kinds of material stuff , such as gold . |
| 16 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 17 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 18 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 19 | If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 . |
| 20 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
| 21 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |
| 22 | A dejected Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson said : ‘ We did as we have been doing in every game . |
| 23 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 24 | I hope your new proposals will work towards better rail-cycle facilities , as we have been having a lot of problems with Scotrail about the carriage of bikes . |
| 25 | As they have been fighting each other on much of it , any agreement to stop must represent progress . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , in this closing scene , the water hyacinths proceed towards the sea , as they have been doing throughout the action . |