Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig 's greatest impact on Jo has been teasing her into taking work less seriously . |
| 2 | Mr Jones is well known in many parishes of the diocese , as he has been visiting them in helping to organise their planned giving schemes . |
| 3 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 4 | Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string . |
| 5 | I must have known that those were the very advantages I had been denying myself in denying myself food . |
| 6 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 7 | Lindsey knew she had been fooling herself in thinking she could remain indifferent . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been doing lots of shouting recently and we 've both been unhappy . |
| 9 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |
| 10 | At the same time , Peachcake , if worries about the future are what 's been keeping him from showing his feelings for you and he 's as much in love with you as you appear to be with him , there 's to be no hasty wedding . |