Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 2 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 3 | The UK , Cambridge-based Olivetti Research Laboratory , ORL , funded jointly by Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and DEC , has been doing a lot of work on the so-called ‘ active badge ’ technology — infra-red location devices linked to computer and telephone systems . |
| 4 | So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy , |
| 5 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 7 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 8 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 9 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 10 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 11 | She had been thinking a lot about the conversation she and Leila had had back at Lazar 's , the talk of sky cities and escape . |
| 12 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 13 | He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries . |
| 14 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 15 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 16 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 17 | She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion . |
| 18 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 19 | ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim . |
| 20 | But recently I 've been thinking a lot about a person I see once a week at a club . |
| 21 | ‘ Miranda , I 've been thinking a lot about you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been thinking a lot about it , ’ she said , moving the salt cellar in a pattern on the tablecloth , ‘ and I think — ’ |
| 23 | ‘ No , I have n't , but I 've been hearing a lot about it , and I 've read books , of course . ’ |
| 24 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been getting a lot of flak about fighting in Spain and I did n't want Anne to get any . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been making a lot of noise ’ , the mining man is alleged to have said . |
| 27 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 28 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
| 29 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |