Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 2 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 3 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 4 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 5 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 6 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 7 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 8 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 9 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 10 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 11 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 12 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 13 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 15 | One metric by which collocations may be measured and grouped is to rate them on a scale of probability . |
| 16 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 17 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 18 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 19 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 20 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 21 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 22 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 23 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 24 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 25 | What you wan na do is leave it in the squash club , in the actual er court |
| 26 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |
| 27 | We 're , we 're sort of just about , you know there 's the last minute things to put in , but , barring that , what we 've done is to put it in a lot of small bags rather than big cases |
| 28 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 29 | As you can see , so far six hundred organizations have registered with us and what we 've done is put them in a rather , rather flash booklet and the idea is that youngsters , their parents , teachers , youth leaders , scout leaders , anybody , gets hold of one of these booklets and in it , it tells them how to go sailing . |
| 30 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |