Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Mr Sutherland can 've been thinking of , I do n't know . |
| 2 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 3 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 5 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 6 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 7 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 8 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 9 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 10 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 11 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 12 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 13 | The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s . |
| 14 | The Old Berkshire Hunt , based at nearby Faringdon , has been hunting in the area since 1830 . |
| 15 | The press has been clamouring for ‘ new faces and new measures ’ . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , the Reagan administration has been moving toward building fences around the American scientific community . |
| 17 | Agribusiness , which has been moving into the luxury end of the market , with the growth of carnations in Colombia and strawberries in Mexico for sale in the United States , has contributed to the high level of exports . |
| 18 | THERE 'S little doubt that over the past decade the British public has been moving towards the Tory party 's ideal of a nation of home owners . |
| 19 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 20 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 21 | Mr Tsongas has been thinking of reviving his campaign . |
| 22 | Woosnam has been thinking of changing to a ‘ cack-handed ’ grip on the greens left hand below right because his putting has been so poor in recent weeks . |
| 23 | Arafat , determined to rally Palestinians behind the deal , began the round of meetings on Thursday and has been struggling since then to overcome opposition of at least four of the 12 members attending , Palestinian sources said . |
| 24 | Robson , 35 , has been struggling with a recurrence of a calf injury and missed the explosive Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 25 | Merson does n't hide the fact that he has been struggling with his weight . |
| 26 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 27 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 28 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 29 | Great-grandmother Shay , 75 , from Walton , has been collecting in memory of fallen heroes since 1942 . |
| 30 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |