Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been discovering how much travel writing relies on metaphor to describe the unfamiliar , using an imagery that the folks back home will recognise . |
| 2 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 3 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 4 | Told he was being arrested , he just smirked : ‘ You guys have been watching too much TV . ’ |
| 5 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 6 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |
| 7 | Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income . |
| 8 | Could it be ( and perhaps this more likely ! ) that machines have been working non-stop all summer , spring and last winter ? |
| 9 | Spring is also the ideal time to do all those jobs you have been putting off all winter . |
| 10 | And finally we return you to America to party on down with those incredibly nice chaps from TEENAGE FAN CLUB , who have been winning over all and sundry with their boyish charm , roguish antics and , occasionally , pop music . |
| 11 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 13 | Complete removal of weeds , including all the roots , is important , preferably by hand or while digging ; incidentally , do remember that some of them may be the very plants you are intending to grow , though if the area contains horsetail it is better not to try growing perennial plants in it until you have been clearing out this weed for some years . |
| 14 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 15 | When such researchers have been doing just this for over 100 years , is it not sensible to take note of what they are saying ? |
| 16 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 17 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |