Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of retired railway workers have been protesting at what they claim is a government plan to raid their pension funds . |
| 2 | The past four months have been exhausting for their mother Ann . |
| 3 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 4 | Hercules planes from RAF Lyneham have been flying across what was formerly Yugoslavia for the past six weeks . |
| 5 | His visual impressions have been fading without his knowing it , and with their reactivation stale information has suddenly sorted itself out into a new and firm pattern . |
| 6 | ‘ It will be a relief to have it out in the open and it will stop all the questions I have been getting about my future , ’ said the 21year-old Nottingham Forest player . |
| 7 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 8 | I have been struggling with my marriage for years largely because of my mood swings . |
| 9 | ‘ My dear Rose , we have been hearing of your protégé . |
| 10 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 11 | He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there . |
| 12 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 13 | County are in danger of suffering their second relegation in successive seasons , and Pavis said : ‘ People have been writing to me asking when I 'm going to sack the manager . ’ |
| 14 | Explaining why he did not foresee a cut in interest rates in the near future , he said : ‘ I have to take into account the needs of savers , many of whom have been writing to me recently , the exchange rate which causes concern to some people — and I believe what people above all want is stability . ’ |
| 15 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 16 | I must go now , or my brother will guess I have been speaking to you . |
| 17 | Well , there will be a certain amount of explanation that will have to be done , because Geoffrey Howe is a well known , well liked figure among many people that I deal with er but now , and for some time now , for a year now , it 's I who have been dealing with them and I hope I 've inherited some of the work and some of the trust which he helped to create . |
| 18 | I have been singing for his lordship of Leicester . |
| 19 | We have been living beyond our means for too long and had better start tightening our belts . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He did n't realise that people all over the world have been looking for him . ’ |
| 21 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 22 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 23 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 24 | how they gon na , how are they gon na go on with this sale of land that the council have sold some land to the council and the police have been looking into it |
| 25 | he 's been able to get round it really , it might well be above board , but the police have been looking into it |
| 26 | I have been looking at it . |
| 27 | ‘ Up to now , many of these people have been looking after themselves . |
| 28 | Here we are we have children who are paralysed , who have been looking after themselves while others have died . |
| 29 | There is a special shop for foreigners here , called the ‘ Friendship Store ’ , and I have been looking round it . |
| 30 | Later I have been thinking over what Dad said . |