Example sentences of "[vb infin] that [pron] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do know that we 've been trying to get er recognition for about fifteen years with that company but can we pursue that issue ? |
| 2 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 3 | And when she returned he would imagine that he could see the glow of the skin , the satisfied smile of remembered happiness , could almost smell that she had been making love . |
| 4 | You may feel that we have been exaggerating about the goodies we like to consume causing us shape and health problems . |
| 5 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 6 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 7 | ‘ Although if you read the American papers , you can see that they have been accusing our troops of committing ‘ atrocities ’ in Palestine . |
| 8 | Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him . |
| 9 | The others looked at him almost in disbelief , but I could see that he had been thinking very carefully . |
| 10 | Catherine sounded suddenly exhausted , and as she gave him back the cup she turned towards him , letting him see that she had been crying , but without looking him in the face . |
| 11 | The two men could see that she had been crying , that she was still extremely distressed . |
| 12 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 13 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 14 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 15 | Cruel observers may remark that he 's been going downhill ever since . |
| 16 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 17 | I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability . |
| 18 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |
| 19 | But he 'd done this before and then suddenly , by a single comment , Willi would reveal that he had been playing a game all along . |
| 20 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 21 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 22 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 23 | Because of the term 's many meanings , and the confusion they therefore create , it is proposed in these pages to avoid them where-ever possible Resource-based learning , like resource-based teaching , can obviously exemplify " educational technology " in one or other meaning , but a surprising number of teachers would indignantly deny that they had been practising it ; in some cases , this implies disagreement or scepticism with the claims made by some sell styled " educational technologists ' ( meaning 5 ) and in other cases derives simply from a misunderstanding . |