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 .
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