Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |
| 2 | This magic had been happening while they had been closeted with the policeman discussing the prosaic and sordid details of the burglary . |
| 3 | A lot must have been happening while he had slept . |
| 4 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 5 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 6 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 7 | He had heard from other prisoners ( he told Beltrami ) that a man called Ian Waddell had been boasting that he had taken part in the Ayr crime , and then , on a quite different charge , Waddell was sent to Barlinnie himself . |
| 8 | She had n't been acting when she 'd responded so passionately out there on the dance floor . |
| 9 | I 'd been wondering whether anybody had noticed my presence at all . |
| 10 | The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room . |
| 11 | He would have been lying if he had recorded only the more accessible drama of the painter 's electric quarrels with Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles , the distant necessary brother who supplied paint and love , the severed ear delivered to the whore in the brothel , the asylum fears . |
| 12 | said once I said and I , when she 's been going and it 's been cold out there I said to her cos she always comes on a Tuesday dinner time |
| 13 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 14 | And what the hell had happened to the mild , gentle humour he 'd been displaying since he 'd arrived ? |
| 15 | Was it only hours since she 'd been wishing that it had ? |
| 16 | She had been clinging when she 'd been in Ven 's arms , she had to admit that , but then — she loved him . |
| 17 | That is what I 've been doing and I have had some marvellous views of them . ’ |
| 18 | That 's what I 'd have been doing if I had been there so you 're not so different from me Peter , so you might have , you might be different in other ways John , but I 've got that weakness as well . |
| 19 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 20 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
| 21 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 22 | ‘ Even the gaffer has been saying that we have a half-decent team . |
| 23 | Oh he 's in hospital , I did n't know a thing about it , I 've been saying when we 've been to the Pentam , we have n't seen Trevor for a while , we have n't seen Trevor , and even Barry at the Pentam did n't tell me , he thought I knew |
| 24 | Of course , she had n't been joking when she 'd told the English girl that a marriage between two highly charged Leos could be an explosive situation . |
| 25 | Andrew Hall 's back in the limelight now that the BBC is showing re-runs of Butterflies — but where has he been hiding and what has he been up to all this time ? |
| 26 | ‘ I wish it had been boiling and I 'd poured it over your damned head ! ’ |
| 27 | I think the key point is Yeltsin , like Gorbachev , unlike the coup leaders is part of a very privileged elite in the Soviet Union and the difference is that to express the erm , you know trying to put them , advance themselves in society at the expense of the rest of Soviet 's society , applicable difference is erm much more inventive and sort of packed on the end to justify er that , that the moves they are making , I mean at , you know like I say that can be seen in the very democratic step that Yeltsin 's been taking since he 's been the Russian president . |
| 28 | His foot touched the book he had been reading before he had fallen asleep . |
| 29 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
| 30 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |