Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [adv] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
| 2 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 3 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 4 | Having worked his way up via his own live spoof chat show Vic 's Big Night Out , he has latterly been guesting on television 's One Hour With Jonathan Ross , a show whose format bears a strong resemblance to Reeves 's own showcase . |
| 5 | We 've been quoting Morrissey repeatedly from a Record Mirror interview and he has n't been talking about the pain of youth , the imagery of sixties films or the perception of Oscar Wilde . |
| 6 | He has n't been talking to anybody has he ? |
| 7 | Also , the pilot will be in very good flying form and his instructor will have made sure that he has not been getting into bad habits . |
| 8 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 9 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 10 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 11 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 12 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 13 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |