Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 2 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 3 | In the vestry and in his bungalow , under the pretext of extra rehearsal , he has been fondling these big brown girls and offering them cigarettes and money for sex . |
| 4 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 5 | A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice . |
| 6 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 7 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 8 | The Edinburgh Green Belt Trust has been discussing this matter with its funding partners and it will be important for David Oldham to discuss the various views with the Urban Forestry Advisory Group . |
| 9 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 10 | Mary Anne who has been managing this side of things for us is leaving Birmingham and we are looking for a new manager ( see job description on page 6 ) . |
| 11 | I believe generally good teams are built around a strong defence and this has been lacking all season . |
| 12 | Latin American art has been undergoing such a review both from within Latin America itself and from elsewhere , with several exhibitions and books on the subject in the last few years in Europe and the US . |
| 13 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 14 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 15 | Mr Ashdown , buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results , has been touring both constituencies . |
| 16 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 17 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
| 18 | It is not always the child who has been building that does the packing away . |
| 19 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 20 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 21 | jack ’ , we discover , ‘ has been reading this epistle with a commentary but could get no help from it . ’ |
| 22 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 23 | By the way — ’ Helen paused , ‘ — she has been gathering some gossip that will probably interest you . |
| 24 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 25 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 26 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 27 | JULIEANNE McConville ( 20 ) , has been modelling most of her life . |
| 28 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 29 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 30 | John has been dreading this moment . |