Example sentences of "[adv] have [been] [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
2 | He may also have been wearing glasses . |
3 | While Dostoevsky was interested in the noble Moor and the jealousy question , he will also have been pondering ghost-reasons for his own villain . |
4 | He says there must be a reinterpretation of the way polls are analysed and like some others , including Worcester and Moon , believes there may also have been sampling errors . |
5 | Okay people could well have been using savings . |
6 | Until now you may well have been making samples only 60 stitches wide . |
7 | and might as well have been doing decimals . |
8 | It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers . |
9 | Well , Joan and Sheila there 've been taking cobwebs down and things like that you know and then paying her to do it . |
10 | And no one else has been creating ballets . |
11 | " Who else has been making bids for Mr Rayne ? " |
12 | The travellers who 've moved on voluntarily have been creating problems elsewhere . |
13 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |