Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 2 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 3 | And the question I had been holding down with my domestic frenzy , my sorting and tidying , my focus on Matter , burst through : would the decay have set in ? |
| 4 | been coming down , ever since I 've been coming down here , he 's been in there |
| 5 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
| 6 | And today I 've been feeling down . |
| 7 | I 've been knuckling down all the time . |
| 8 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 9 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 10 | ‘ So she 's been coming down with you , has she ? ’ asked Greg . |
| 11 | We have been riding down what the Americans have called the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ . |
| 12 | Since the beginning of March , we have been running down production at Warwick . |
| 13 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 14 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 15 | They 've been closing down since I 've known them |
| 16 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |
| 17 | Mike lowered the can of Coke which he 'd been emptying down his parched throat . |
| 18 | It had been lashing down when they 'd gone in . |
| 19 | It had been bucketing down when she 'd left home that morning . |
| 20 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 21 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 22 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 23 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 24 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |