Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 2 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 3 | Well , but I 've just been conversing with ghosts myself . |
| 4 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
| 5 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 6 | But I 've never been talking to you before . |
| 7 | Then , and so then but I have n't been seeing Mrs . |
| 8 | I know but you 've not been thinking of me . |
| 9 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 10 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 11 | But she had not been listening . |
| 12 | but she 's just been crying nonstop . |
| 13 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 14 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 15 | You see the same thing in our kind of business , but we 've really been operating in international markets for much longer and it 's a slower process . |
| 16 | Hopefully we can go all the way to Wembley , but we 've all been saying in the dressing room that there are some big league games coming up and we have to concentrate on them . ’ |
| 17 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 18 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I think it was really because Paul felt that everything was going really well with the partnership board , and he 'd been erm putting a lot of work in with people like erm from Scarborough , and John and er other people who are on the board , but he 'd rather been neglecting building up a really good working relationship with N Y T E C. |
| 21 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 22 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 23 | Dave , Steve Davis has had a terrible you know , preliminary start to the season , this is the start of the official season , but he has n't been playing very well at the moment . |