Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet oilmen have been tapping into these supplies since the 1940s , when they created Oil Rocks , a gigantic production centre with 200 kilometres of causeway , built on concrete piles and landfill offshore . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 3 | How can teachers be prepared to undertake the process of pragmatic mediation that I have been proposing in these chapters ? |
| 4 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 5 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 6 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |