Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the space of four weeks , not only has the car been broken into , but the Health Centre has been robbed of computer hardware for our new cardiovascular screening programme , I have been threatened with violence in my consulting-room for refusing to prescribe opiates and my home has been burgled at 5.00 am by a seventeen-year-old wielding a club hammer . |
| 2 | I have been singing for his lordship of Leicester . |
| 3 | My searches this month have followed exactly the same lines as those of last month ; that is to say , I have been venturing into areas possessing no known or recorded activity . |
| 4 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 5 | Wilkinson admitted : ‘ I am keeping all my options open and I have been thinking about whether I should play Rocastle . |
| 6 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 7 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 8 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 9 | Message : I have been thinking about your suggestion that we do not charge for ABI when we re-launch on 21st July . |
| 10 | ‘ But I have been thinking about taking a course , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Later I have been thinking over what Dad said . |
| 12 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 13 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
| 14 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 15 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 16 | And John and I have been thinking of the worst possible situation that they could have . |
| 17 | On several occasions I have been chatting with someone who relies on speechreading , and suddenly all the lights have gone out , cutting us off completely . |
| 18 | Like Mr Nicholson , I have been commuting for more than ten years from Fife , but hardly ever by car , which I find is too nerve-wracking and frustrating an experience and almost as bad as commuting by bus . |
| 19 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 20 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 21 | Unhealthy it most certainly is ( I have been prevailed upon to refrain from detailing how ) but one only has to say the magic word AIDS to realise the sad fact that the consequences of some homosexual intercourse are far from gay . |
| 22 | I have been communicating with the Minister since 1988 on that problem . |
| 23 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 24 | I have been influenced in thinking about the comparative element in these chapters by Dickens et al. |
| 25 | In this respect , I have been influenced by the success of Proposition 13 enacted in California in 1978 , which necessitated a sharp reduction in property taxes . |
| 26 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 27 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 28 | As a non-disabled worker , or ‘ professional ’ , I have been learning about releasing control of the work . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been learning about life , ’ she replied . |
| 30 | I have been dragged into my own book against my will . |