No. 71] OM NOGLE VERBALFORMER I ENGELSK. 19 


Medens her has been preaching betegner en handling, som både 
kan ha strakt sig gjennem en længere tid og kan ha gjentat 
sig til forskjellige tider, er det klart, at have been sending him 
a round-robin kun kan betegne en enkelt handling. Fremdeles: 
I have been obtaiming the release of about nine 
and twenty Turkish prisoners...and have sent 
them . . . . home (Byron, Letters 339). 
Her er det ikke nødvendigt at opfatte have been obtaining, som 
en enkelt handling, da han ikke behøver at ha opnået alles 
frihed på engang; men det felgende have sent them synes dog 
at antyde, at dette er tilfældet. Således også i følgende eks.: 
He wants me to teach in Sunday school — and 
the minister's wife has been talking to him about 
my dress (Ward, Grieve I, 290). — ,Is his lord- 
ship in?* he asked. ,Yes, sir, in the library. 
He has been asking for you, sir.* (Ward, Mar- 
cella I, 86). 
Men medens der i disse eks. kan være tale om flere enkelte 
handlinger, er dette udelukket i følgende, hvor det kun kan 
gjælde én enkelt handling: 
She is depressed, because she has been finding 
Elizabeth out in some waste or other (Ward, 
Robert Elsmere I, 14; Tauchn.). — Å labourer 
has been getting into trouble for shooting å keeper 
(Ward, Marcella II, 97). — You've been getting 
into mischief (ib. III, 105). — ; Well, now, Mrs. 
Grieve,* he said cheerily, ,we have been agreeing 
— your husband aud I — that it will be best 
for you to go up to London (Ward, Grieve III, 
252), — On the moorside the steep, broken ground 
of the hill came up to the rocky line they had 
been descending (ib. I, 90). — The lad whose 
bruised face and torn clothes showed he had 
been fighting (ib. I, 138). — She might have run 
