Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 2 | In addition , many governments have extended legislation to other areas , for example , laws which permit police to use a breathalyser test to detect and detain drivers who have been drinking in excess of the alcohol limit . |
| 3 | A number of his fellow Cheshires who have been serving in war-torn Bosnia were also honoured for their gallantry . |
| 4 | To give you some insight into the kind of research we have been doing in order to grasp the concept of innovative climate , I will present two sets of data . |
| 5 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 6 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 7 | Ruth drew a deep breath , summoned all her courage , and blurted out the question which had been churning in her mind day and night for some time . |
| 8 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 9 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 10 | Three Swedish engineers who had been working in Kuwait received seven-year sentences on Sept. 20 after also being accused of illegal entry . |
| 11 | She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived . |
| 12 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 13 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 14 | Oh wanted a word with you see how much money you 've been putting in my , and we 're going for a mortgage now . |
| 15 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 16 | The unrest which had been escalating in Azerbaijan since the outbreak in February 1988 of the dispute with neighbouring Armenia over the Nagorny Karabakh region [ for December 1989 developments see p. 37128 ] , exploded in mid-January into intercommunal violence across the republic and on the Armenian border . |
| 17 | My husband has not paid the community charge which has been operating in Scotland for a year . |
| 18 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 19 | Wirral-born Ron Minshull , who emigrated to Canada over 30 years ago , is appearing with the Merseysippi Jazz Band who have been performing in Sacramento . |
| 20 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 21 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 22 | CLEARING up operations began yesterday after a group of travellers moved , under the threat of eviction , from a site they have been occupying in the centre of the Co . |
| 23 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 24 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 25 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 26 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 27 | A curd which has been soaking in its own whey makes an acid cheese ( which explains the often sharp taste of Eastern Mediterranean white cheeses which are sometimes stored in whey ) . |
| 28 | After that they had begun to encounter the behavioural problems which had been occurring in Reykjavik and which are so depressingly familiar to us all . |
| 29 | ‘ Way you go , Patty , ’ he said softly , and the dog was off , hurling herself along the embankment , all paws and flying ears , after a rabbit who had been sitting in a patch of sun but disappeared with contemptuous ease as she came close . |
| 30 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |