Example sentences of "and [pron] have [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 3 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 4 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 5 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 7 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 8 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 9 | I have n't exercise like cos I have n't I have n't hardly I 've just er doing everything like , and I 've been working hard but |
| 10 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 11 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 12 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 13 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 14 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 15 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 16 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 17 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |
| 18 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 19 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 20 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 21 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 22 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 23 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 24 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 25 | And he 'd been getting worse , no doubt about that . |
| 26 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 27 | He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty . |
| 28 | And he 's been saying some very wild things to George . |
| 29 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 30 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |