Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EC Commission vice-president , Sir Leon Brittan , has promised the European Parliament that he will investigate claims that the Italian authorities have been using unfair means to acquire public control of the Italian chemical industry . |
| 2 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 3 | Oswald and his wife Jenny have been selling wet fish from their stall for 45 years . |
| 4 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 5 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 6 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |