Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pers pn] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 2 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 3 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 5 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 6 | It might not be her number one priority but she had been organising people as long as she could remember . |
| 7 | It 's one we normally keep in the attic but we 've been keeping it down here |
| 8 | Dear Rosemary , I know you must receive hundreds of letters like mine but I have been meaning to write to you now for ages . |
| 9 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 10 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 11 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm a tough , tough guy but I 've been crying my eyes out all day , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 14 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |