Example sentences of "[pers pn] have only be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 2 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 3 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 4 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 5 | I 've only been standin' 'ere twenty minutes , 'aven' I ? |
| 6 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 7 | I have only been using LM potencies actively for about nine monthe . |
| 8 | She 'd only been trying to help . |
| 9 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 10 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 11 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 12 | Why has everything suddenly become she you 've only been doing this the last few days . |
| 13 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |
| 14 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 15 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 17 | And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . |
| 18 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 19 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 20 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 21 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 22 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 26 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 27 | He remembered his sporadic visits back to Taler 's Bump , the shy little girl who 'd been virtually a stranger to him , his awkward attempts at being a family man when all the time he 'd only been yearning to get back to work . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging . |
| 29 | But yesterday Mr Hughes , 31 , a member of the Royal Photographic Society , told a Birmingham industrial tribunal he had only been showing Mrs Bevins his holiday snaps . |
| 30 | The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him . |