Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one enthroned by a building has been thought Priam in Troy , and if so there are two subjects : Gigantomachy ( Battle of Gods and Giants ) and Iliupersis ( Sack of Troy ) . |
| 2 | THE New Zealand Dairy Board has been touring Europe over the past two weeks pressing its case for continued access to the British dairy market . |
| 3 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 4 | Harry 's original intention had been to approach Cornelius via a secretary or administrator . |
| 5 | The SAAF had been operating Dakotas since June 1943 , with a total of 58 on charge , flying principally from southern Africa to North Africa and then into Italy . |
| 6 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 7 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 8 | All week Bangor folk have been stopping Flanagan on the streets of his home town to ask : ‘ Are n't you sorry now you left ? ’ |
| 9 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 10 | I accept that erm and of course he 's dealing with it , approaching it from the basis that that factual issue is one she 's resolved in favour of the plaintiff erm it may be that there 's very little issue between us , it may be that the defendant would concede if your Lordship were to find that er the plaintiff had been asking Mr on several occasions to get him out of the contract , it may be conceded , I know not . |
| 11 | ‘ Leon 's been touring England for the past ten days , Delia . |
| 12 | The only thing he could n't persuade Edith to do was to visit Boulogne for the day . |
| 13 | Noble Metals have been supplying Ford for a number of years with high specification platinum/ iridium wire , used in the manufacture of high performance spark plugs . |
| 14 | ISLINGTON 'S SAN Diego transplants The God Machine are quitting Britain for a while . |
| 15 | The laird had been studying Cameron with unwavering attention . |
| 16 | The 21-year-old student had been visiting Southport on her return to Munich after watching the TT races in the Isle of Man . |
| 17 | Tommy cook had been plaguing Pinner for months . |
| 18 | The second main line has been to tar Major as ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ . |
| 19 | Its answer has been to reduce Dagenham to a single-product plant . |
| 20 | The obvious thing to do was to ring Sophia at the vicarage . |
| 21 | Tommy and Iain have been supplying Christopher with drink . |
| 22 | The option Charlton has is to move Irwin to the right of midfield and play Kelly . |
| 23 | For over a year the press had been presenting Cripps as a dangerous radical , if not a republican . |
| 24 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 25 | Mica has been touring Europe with fellow artists Aswad and Billy Ocean . |
| 26 | Mica has been touring Europe with fellow artists Aswad and Billy Ocean . |
| 27 | ‘ Your charming mother has been helping Melissa with her researches , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
| 29 | A main aim of that rescheduling had been to allow Gorbachev at the earliest opportunity to push through reforms and install a more sympathetic central committee . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Worcestershire have been playing Nottinghamshire in their first round match . |