Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 3 | ‘ I see you 've been checking up on me . ’ |
| 4 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 5 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 6 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 7 | The building industry has been cashing in by providing sheltered housing schemes for elderly people , there is a whole holiday industry built around holidays for the elderly and more and more private nursing homes are springing up . |
| 8 | The company , which made its name with the Microdata Reality version of Pick , running on machines built in-house , has been moving over to software and services , which now account for 58% of total business , and on the hardware side , the company now buys in its machines . |
| 9 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 10 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 11 | Over the years industrial capitalist society has been casting off many of the more obvious outward signs of inner distress . |
| 12 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 13 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 14 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 15 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 16 | er Again it 's difficult to say , the information has been leaking out from the talks , er it does n't look as though a pay formula is being included but Roger Pulne , er even on the onset of this dispute guaranteed the members er that any deal that was struck with management would include a pay formula and er if the deal does n't come out with a pay formula after the ballot as I say , I think people are going to be very disappointed and let-down by our union negotiators . |
| 17 | They have to take account not only of local white vested interests , but , more importantly , of foreign and multinational capital which controls a substantial proportion of its industries , though the government has been buying out some foreign , especially South African , firms . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's absolute rubbish to suggest I 've been even a confidante while his marriage has been breaking up . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said . |
| 20 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 21 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 22 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 23 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 24 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 25 | The Geoprobe work has been picking up , and there are strong prospects for site investigation work for property management companies and businesses needing risk assessments , such as banks and insurance companies . |
| 26 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 28 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |
| 29 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 30 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |