Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |
| 2 | I have also been experimenting with more knitted ‘ jewellery ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 4 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 5 | I have just been watching on television the final scenes from the Royal Shakespeare Company 's performance of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 6 | Indeed , as I write this , I have just been watching on television Lord Denning declaring with self-satisfaction that he puts all such letters straight into the wastepaper basket . |
| 7 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 8 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 9 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 10 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 11 | I have certainly been screaming with loneliness for as long as I can remember . |
| 12 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 13 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 15 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 16 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 17 | With a broad smile , David says : ‘ We have also been looking at Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and we 're just about to start on Marilyn Monroe ! ’ |
| 18 | The letter ( the one we have just been talking about , the one that arrived by post this morning , the one containing Aunt Kitty 's cheque … ) is in the drawer ( the one in the desk , the one in the dressing table upstairs , the one in the kitchen where we always put the post … ) . |
| 19 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 20 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 21 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ The machine has a great potential for use at the centre and its restoration has been a project that we have all been working towards for some while . ’ |
| 23 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |
| 24 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 25 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 26 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 27 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |
| 28 | The intelligent amongst us have already been looking at the questions on page forty seven and realizing that despite the weirdness of the sound of this music there are some quite direct things that can be asked . |