Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] and [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've been workin' and diggin' in those s … fields for years and do you know what it is ? |
| 2 | I 've been training and playing practice matches in case my experience is needed . ’ |
| 3 | There 's , we , we 've been struggling and trying to do ourselves and all we have to do is to allow Christ to come in to our lives , because he died to take away the sin , he dealt with the route cause of it , Christ in you , the hope of glory . |
| 4 | Cos I 've been trying and trying for ages |
| 5 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been listening and watching all day . |
| 7 | I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it , |
| 8 | Pace that 's right you 've been cheating and looking on looking on the next page |
| 9 | You 've been bumbling and mumbling for hours . |
| 10 | We 've been admitting and transferring all day . |
| 11 | They 've been coming and going all day . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been waiting and waiting for you to do that . |
| 14 | And we 've been waiting and waiting and waiting now for a week to get this reconciliation at least together so that we could go out and re-count whatever was required . |
| 15 | Mum , that 's Carol , has been riding him out this week , while Dad , that 's Richard , the trainer and son , Tom have been masterminding and monitoring the build up . |
| 16 | Places on the relevant courses/seminars/workshops have been reserved and joining instructions will be issued in due course . |
| 17 | Since the 16th century people have been puzzling and researching into the origins of names . |
| 18 | Men and women have been choosing and wearing black for donkey 's years . |
| 19 | The source , when they find it , is my swimfeeder which I have been casting and retrieving quite frequently since those initial handfuls . |
| 20 | For a long time we have been thinking and praying about a place of our own . |
| 21 | There have been many examples , particularly in pub , club and leisure businesses where false economies have been made and wilting plant material is always noticed by a discerning , paying public . |
| 22 | It is this that we have been displaying and using in publications . |
| 23 | For some time , I have been kneading and reshaping a deeply discomforting , if homely adage : If you 're not successful in this world you wo n't be successful in the next . |
| 24 | It is about a principle for which people have been fighting and dying for centuries — the indisputable right to self-determination . |
| 25 | It is the same battle , in a new form , which dates centuries back , and which finds support from peoples all over the ‘ Third World ’ who have been fighting and dying for too long for something which is so clearly their birthright . |
| 26 | It could have been Hick holding together a Worcestershire innings — and that is exactly what England have been waiting and hoping for from the man who had completed 57 first-class hundreds before he was 25 . |
| 27 | The two groups have been kidnapping and killing each other 's followers . |
| 28 | Separate leaves have been appearing and reappearing since , the current value of good specimens being £200-£400 . |
| 29 | Now , if you see a ploughed field today , it looks exactly as if a lot of pigs have been a-hoggin' and a-rootin' on it up . ’ |
| 30 | For over a century , Amdega have been designing and building the highest quality conservatories . |