Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I had been understudying Constance Donovan I was now to play Lydia , the second lead . |
| 2 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 3 | I 've been trying mail order . |
| 4 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 5 | I mean I 've certainly been very much helped in the time at Sussex when I 've been working part time by the men that I 've worked with |
| 6 | He said I 've been giving Lee dinner money every day . |
| 7 | And it 's not earning us anything in there , but mind you erm it sometimes during the week where erm the tables are full of a load of papers and what have you where I 've been doing paper work and that |
| 8 | Well I 've been making Christmas cake this morning so I feel quite er happy with myself . |
| 9 | A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it |
| 10 | Someone had been making clay ashtrays and abstract plant pots . |
| 11 | Bill , I have been receiving home help , for which I 'm very grateful , a good service , but I paid four pound forty five a week for somebody to come in and just wash and dress my wife in the morning . |
| 12 | Sir : I am writing first to congratulate you all on an excellent magazine , I have been reading Computer magazines for the last 10 years and can honestly say that Practical PC is the most informative and enjoyable one to date . |
| 13 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon said : ‘ The health authority and I have been lobbying health ministers for some months and I am delighted Darlington is to get this scanner . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ Julie continued , ‘ I have been driving Aunt Polly 's Chevvy for absolutely ages in the States . ’ |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues . |
| 16 | Ever since it was revealed that Grant has a boat I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ I have been visiting North Tees for over a year now and there is no doubt in my mind that the majority of staff want the trust and are looking forward to it . ’ |
| 18 | Incidentally , I have been following Bruce Tulloh 's programme for the London Marathon . |
| 19 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |
| 20 | For example , 13-year old Monique Weir , from Dorchester , a suburb of Boston , is a product of the Sportsman 's Club , which has been providing tennis facilities for the local community since 1961 . |
| 21 | DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ that is expected to be made public soon . |
| 22 | DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ expected to be made public soon . |
| 23 | THE local artists ' exhibition which has been occupying Oriel Court , an empty office block on Omega Park , Alton , since March 16th , is to run for an extra week — until April 3rd — due to popular demand . |
| 24 | Probably the best known of these is the Royal Navy Historic Flight 's AS.5 WB271 which has been delighting air show audiences in the UK since 1972 . |
| 25 | Britain 's Consumer Association , which has been testing handpump designs for the UN and the World Bank , has identified some of them . |
| 26 | ‘ We hear you 've been selling Victor carthorses . |
| 27 | The scheme , along with other CAP reform details on sheep and suckler cow quota , as well as new stocking density calculations , was explained to the meeting by a senior Meat and Livestock Commission economist , Mrs Lesley Greene , who has been monitoring CAP changes for the last six months . |
| 28 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 29 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 30 | Huh me sitting here and you 've been eating blood supper . |