Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but I 've been taking out , cos we had a rogue living above us you see , and I thought well he 's one of these that 'll take owt if he can get it you see . |
| 2 | But I 've been thinking even more about it all and do you know , I 've come up with something . |
| 3 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But I 've been travelling hopefully in the meanwhile , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've got my first catalogue and two books ready . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't understand myself , but I 've been dreaming again . |
| 7 | ‘ But I have been working away ever since and they have not done anything more to me . |
| 8 | But you 've been working too hard this past while . |
| 9 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 10 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know if Alexandra has told you , but we 've been hoping very much to feature your next collection in our spring bumper issue , ’ Felicity said . |
| 13 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 14 | They have no speech beyond grunts , but they 've been surviving out here . ’ |
| 15 | Item — On the night of March 18th , there was a fierce storm ; Alexander was not drunk but he had been drinking heavily . |
| 16 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 17 | But he had been coming home drunk too often and now she was determined to let him know her feeling about it . |
| 18 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 19 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 20 | But he 's been saving up . |
| 21 | ‘ I would if I could — but he 's been flying back and forth to Australia like a damned Yo-Yo ! |
| 22 | Yeah , but he 's been doing really good ! |
| 23 | But he 's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills , like walking a tightrope . |
| 24 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 25 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 26 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 27 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 28 | I want to work again — to keep up my self-respect more than anything else — but it 's been finding somewhere to live . |
| 29 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 30 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |