Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [indef pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OOH-ER , looks like someone 's been trying a spot of stunt driving that led to a Mini being made even mini-er against a thick brick wall . |
| 2 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 3 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 4 | Booking into the hotel for another night , Kelly was told that someone had been trying to call her . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 6 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |
| 7 | It looked like someone had been drinking and eating bread , ’ said Rojas . |
| 8 | They had had occasional disputes as all families do but none had been damaging . |
| 9 | When I was told this , I recalled hearing it said , back in the 1930s , that these visits had been observed by a young writer or two who , out of rather callous curiosity , would follow Eliot at a discreet distance , and observe him to turn round , as he approached the door , in order to see whether anybody had been spying on him . |