Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish in Britain Representation Group led a march from Whittington Park calling for the release of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 , who have been protesting their innocence for the past 14 years . |
| 2 | ‘ I really have been trying my best — ’ |
| 3 | And , although I was instantaneously and utterly in love with you — and quite determined that we should marry as soon as possible — I have been trying my damnedest to keep some kind of control over my emotions . ’ |
| 4 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 5 | The Tories have been comforting themselves that they are holding their own in marginal seats while Labour 's national poll ratings are being inflated by piling up extra support in its strongholds . |
| 6 | Ex-servicemen who 've been injured on duty have been meeting their old adversaries on the sporting field . |
| 7 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 8 | He 's quite ill with worry , and the reporters have been pestering him . |
| 9 | ‘ Although if you read the American papers , you can see that they have been accusing our troops of committing ‘ atrocities ’ in Palestine . |
| 10 | The French have been accusing us of lack of co-operation lately — military co-operation , that is . |
| 11 | ‘ General Francis and Corporal Wix have been hoping you 'd be back before they had to leave for London . ’ |
| 12 | Bankers retaliate by pointing out that accountants ' advice is invariably based on historic record rather than future possibility , and that it is impossible for them to give impartial advice if they have been auditing their clients ' books over the past years . |
| 13 | so those have been getting plenty of sunshine , light |
| 14 | In the past 30 days you have been training your body to work at its optimum potential ; and you will now have a good idea of what you can achieve by using the Walking Diet recipes and aerobic walking . |
| 15 | Managers at Courtaulds Packaging 's Scotcell operation in Glasgow , Scotland , have been developing their team-building and leadership techniques via a training course that included rock climbing , diving and caving . |
| 16 | That is the right way to help people , it is the right way to achieve long-term prosperity for this country and it is the way in which we have been developing our policies . |
| 17 | We as a centre have been developing our skills … in that area of classroom observation . |
| 18 | In my own case , it is the knowledge that a Labour victory has the effect of a firework in a stagnant pool , in that it brings all the scum to the surface : not just the trade union ruffians , who have been biding their time , but the Left-wing teachers , the child abuse and anti-smoking fanatics , the Hunt Saboteurs , all the ugly underside of British life will suddenly have a powerful voice in the nation 's councils . |
| 19 | Models have been wearing them for years . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 21 | For two hours our own guns have been bombarding us , and if it goes on I shall take my company and bombard the gunner with these grenades ! ’ |
| 22 | Owners of one of the world 's most famous cars have been holding their annual get-together . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to know what she was like , and I want to clear up some questions which have been puzzling me and which do n't appear on the record . ’ |
| 24 | Again some policyholders have been underinsuring themselves , leaving everyone else to carry an unfair burden . |
| 25 | Ever since Maastricht the Tories have been wringing their hands over how best to restore their ‘ caring ’ image among the feminists they enraged by opting out of Europe 's Social Chapter . |
| 26 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 27 | You have been feeding it though ? |
| 28 | THE FRENCH have been shifting their money from the stock market into Paris property , according to Donnelle Higbee , who runs Hampton 's Paris office . |
| 29 | ‘ You two have been kidding me . ’ |
| 30 | But I certainly know how it feels to be called to a distant office where your bosses have been tracking your movements through your ‘ own ’ computer . |