Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] have [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |
2 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
3 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
4 | What kind of community has it been , having lived here having had so many years in which you 've actually had I mean ei either lived here for forty years plus erm from many other years you 've actually been working here in addi in addition . |
5 | It is a shocking scene , because it starts by involving the audience in its raw eroticism and then turns on them , so that they feel guilty for the stirrings they have inevitably been experiencing . |
6 | Well when he gets in the right places he 's only been doing schools and you know ? |
7 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
8 | Computers are used in all walks of life , although so far in our series of programmes we 've largely been looking at scientific applications . |
9 | ‘ If we do n't hurry we 're likely to meet Florian and Nicky in the lift , and right this minute I do n't think I could bring myself to keep quiet about the things you 've just been saying . ’ |
10 | No it is n't , it is n't gon na away but when you go back to these figures we 've actually been working , if you wo if you accept that there 's been , there 's no change in our situation apart from auto-offs and units |
11 | I think , if we 're going to be realistic , there are practical dangers for that , that can put in danger erm some of the things we 've just been talking about . |
12 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |
13 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
14 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
15 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
16 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |