Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 2 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 3 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 4 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 5 | Erm , yeah she is , but she 's doing , you know these calls I 've been receiving . |
| 6 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 7 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 8 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 9 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 10 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 11 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 12 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 13 | ‘ Many months I have been saving , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 15 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 16 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 17 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 18 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 19 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 20 | ‘ How do you propose to raise the money when for the past months you 've been claiming that it just was n't possible ? ’ |
| 21 | Well , Felipe could n't go to that woman anyhow because she was with her husband no matter what signals she had been giving Felipe . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 23 | It turns out that half the words she 's been teaching me are all wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 25 | Thus , this survey combined the two methods we have been looking at above . |
| 26 | They are a significant part of the dissident organizations we have been monitoring . |
| 27 | Although we did n't realize it , the books we used were becoming a tie between us , and the hours we spent together were becoming more and more enjoyable . |
| 28 | " It is our duty to help foreigners We have been watching you , and would like to help you . " |
| 29 | Over the past few months we 've been advising you to take all the hype about the death of the 386 with a generous pinch of salt . |
| 30 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |