Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [pron] [prep] the " 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 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 3 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 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 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 11 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 12 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 15 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 17 | Unix International has been arming itself for the war against Microsoft NT . |
| 18 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 19 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 20 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 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 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 27 | What you wan na do is leave it in the squash club , in the actual er court |
| 28 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |