Example sentences of "has been reading " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
| 2 | jack ’ , we discover , ‘ has been reading this epistle with a commentary but could get no help from it . ’ |
| 3 | The poem is a response to some book Leapor has been reading . |
| 4 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 7 | Karl Hammond has been reading the Royal Society 's report on risk |
| 8 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 9 | ( The writer 's just-seven-year-old son has been reading People we know — level 6 , book 1 in the Ginn Reading Programme — to him this morning , with evident enjoyment . |
| 10 | Sean French has been reading the Bible |
| 11 | Fred Thomson has been reading Home Sweet Home by Roy Ramsay . |