Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be making [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 2 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 3 | He said yesterday : ‘ I 'm sure I had been making inquiries ( in 1945 ) about what would happen to people who we sent back . |
| 4 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy , I 've been making models and carvings , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 6 | As for Houseparties — well , I 've been making friends with the villa girls who run them on islands throughout the Med ; I 've sailed the Turkish coast on a ‘ Gulet ’ , and gone island-hopping in Greece on the luxurious motor yacht ‘ SunSun ’ — they 're all really floating Houseparties . |
| 7 | I 've been making notes on it , all evening . |
| 8 | Well , I 'm sure that there will be some folks at the lecture that will raise those questions , I , I have so much to say and I 've been making notes . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been making enquiries on your behalf and I 'm astounded — astounded ! ’ |
| 11 | Well I 've been making Christmas cake this morning so I feel quite er happy with myself . |
| 12 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
| 13 | And when she returned he would imagine that he could see the glow of the skin , the satisfied smile of remembered happiness , could almost smell that she had been making love . |
| 14 | There , on the deep-piled carpet of the elegant apartment on rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré , she had been making love to a man incarcerated in the slums of Beirut . |
| 15 | If you have been making love horizontally in bed for years and need something new to make sex more varied , Stade Français could be the answer . |
| 16 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 17 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 18 | Not bad for two blokes whose life story is ‘ We 've been making music as a hobby for eight years , and now we want the money ! ’ |
| 19 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 20 | We 've been making inquiries and learned that Mr Putt has been seen wearing one rather similar . |
| 21 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 22 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 23 | They 've been making VIDEO diaries , which go on show next month . |
| 24 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 25 | They 've been making vitamin pills at GR Lane Health Products in Gloucester for sixty years . |
| 26 | THEY 'VE been making room for murder at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford this week , and proved that given the right stage , crime certainly does pay . |
| 27 | He opened a bottle of champagne and before she had a chance to realise what was happening they had been making love . |
| 28 | They were talking rationally now , as adults , just as she had asked , but underneath the façade of civilised behaviour her heart was still doing funny things , and the electricity between them was as powerful as if they had been making love . |
| 29 | That was until the day of his funeral , when his fancy woman , Alice Mulcahy , through gin-inspired sorrow , told her that they had been making plans to go to America . |
| 30 | Source C " The impression left on the minds of those who heard the speech , after the first sensations of surprise had passed , was that the whole thing had been arranged long before and that , while in the Cabinet and committee they had been making panic stricken efforts to balance the budget , the whole business had been a humbug and make-believe . " |