Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 3 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 5 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 7 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 8 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 9 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 10 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 11 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 12 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 13 | Griffiths suggests that the legacy of Descartes to the philosophical understanding of emotions has been to subsume them into one of two categories , mind or body , and to make them rational or non-rational . |
| 14 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 15 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 16 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 17 | He 'd been expecting something like this since Isabel had killed the soldier . |
| 18 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 19 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 20 | what you can do is wind it like that and the hose winds up . |
| 21 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 22 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
| 23 | Cos I think that what we will need to do is refer it to General Purposes Committee for and people to go and have a look at it . |
| 24 | What I would like to do is to take you through some of the issues we tried to work through . |
| 25 | To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6 . |
| 26 | All you need to do is to wipe them with absorbent paper . |
| 27 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 28 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 29 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 30 | ‘ You mean I could have been discussing it with some of your clients , like the Contessa Mantero ? ’ |