Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The sergeant has been looking after us very beautifully though . |
| 2 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 4 | Perhaps he 'd been referring to someone else as well ? |
| 5 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 6 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 7 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 8 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 9 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 10 | Jessamy suddenly grew tired of the silly games that everyone seemed to have been playing with her lately . |
| 11 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 12 | She had been thinking about nothing else except this phone call for days now , wrestling with the conflict of emotions that were raging inside . |
| 13 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 14 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 15 | Cabochon , however , had been thinking about it deeply . |
| 16 | " We had been hoping for something more dramatic " , one said . |
| 17 | Palmer had noticed that something was wrong with the water , even before taking the sample , and volunteered the opinion ( subsequently confirmed ) that cattle had been drinking in it upstream . |
| 18 | In 1927 Tate 's correspondents Winters and Crane had been discussing between themselves not Eliot but William Carlos Williams ( 1883–1963 ) . |
| 19 | He had been dealing with them on and off all his life . |
| 20 | Somebody had been shopping with her now . |
| 21 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 22 | But when she had joined Sausage , who had been waiting for her outside , she bent and stroked his curly head , and two large tears rolled down her cheeks and splashed on to his fur . |
| 23 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 24 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |
| 25 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 26 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 27 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 28 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 29 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
| 30 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |