Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the farmer 's eulogy I had been distractedly scratching the cow 's tail and had soiled my hand in the process . |
| 2 | This was subsequently followed in Ansell v. Swift where the defendant who had been lawfully protecting his brother in a fight hit a policeman who sought to restrain him . |
| 3 | During this period Churchill took over the coal negotiations and displayed a vigour for settlement which had been entirely lacking in the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Not only had dialogue with the French communist party on this highly sensitive issue rapidly degenerated into counter-productive name calling , but also Sartre himself had been gradually moving progressively closer during the late 1940s and early 1950s to the politics of the PCF . |
| 5 | Isabel paused , the refrain she had been absently singing fading away as the soldier stepped into the pleasance at the same moment . |
| 6 | Even the decoits in the interior of Sind who had been closely following Pakistan 's victory march in their hide-outs expressed their joy by firing their weapons in the air without fear of being discovered . |
| 7 | ‘ For decades we have been gradually slipping behind . |
| 8 | When the proceedings were adjourned for lunch , Julia collected the notes she had been conscientiously making and pushed them into her briefcase , before looking for David to see whether he wanted to have lunch with her . |
| 9 | She was still in love with the man , and the knowledge threatened to crumble the defences she 'd been steadfastly attempting to rebuild all day . |
| 10 | She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction . |
| 11 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 12 | From what I later found out , it was apparent that if we were not sent home it may have become increasingly difficult to transport those pupils who travelled on coaches home through the floods which had been gradually rising , mainly due to the River Deben bursting its banks and so flooding the nearby villages . |
| 13 | Adams told the court he had been out drinking but had no more than three pints . |
| 14 | Q I have been mysteriously losing fish in my 24″ × 18″ tank . |
| 15 | Your Team has been invaluable in providing psychological as well as practical support for these patients which have been grossly lacking through the conventional channels . |
| 16 | A woman who had been up getting herself a glass of water heard the commotion and ran out into the street . |
| 17 | It is not a familiar object in our recessionary times , especially to the old and people who have been out enjoying themselves . |
| 18 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 19 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 20 | It was Alejandro Bendana from the Foreign Ministry , a man who had been skilfully avoiding my calls for days . |
| 21 | ‘ Where there 's money to be made you can bet there 's someone making it , ’ said an old man who 'd been silently working his spindle since the conversation began . |
| 22 | Behind the scenes they have been steadily resisting , for many years , the introduction of even the most basic and cheap safety measures such as cab radios . |
| 23 | Scientific studies have established that 80 per cent of the salmon they have been systematically killing were returning to your rivers and should have laid your golden eggs . |
| 24 | She was torn between a desire to hurt him , by releasing the hate and resentment which had been steadily accumulating inside her ever since he had casually annexed her mind and body , and a craven reluctance to precipitate their separation . |
| 25 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |
| 26 | That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century . |
| 27 | That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century . |
| 28 | Before leaving this interesting adjective behind , we may note that it introduces a minor discrepancy from a rather general tendency of qualification which has been gradually emerging by implication in the text so far . |
| 29 | All of this ignores the nurses who have been unofficially deputising in medical roles for many years , according to senior nurse advocates . |
| 30 | She told the boys she had been upstairs reading a book on sex and had a great deal of curiosity . |