Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 2 | It was not known yesterday if the three had returned to Scotland or to the Costa del Sol where they had been living before their arrest . |
| 3 | He began anagramming , twisting letters round , keeping in mind where they had been going , where Mary was still going … |
| 4 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 5 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 6 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 7 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 8 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 9 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 10 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 11 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 12 | How many of you have been hearing whispers in your mind that you have been ignoring ? … . |
| 13 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 14 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 15 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 16 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
| 17 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 18 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 19 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 20 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 21 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 22 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 23 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 24 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 25 | The commitments data that we 've been dealing with to date , for the Greater York area , that was supplied by the County Council , was that data that applied to the what we 're now calling the the the the greenbelt area , or was it the area of search as well ? |
| 26 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 27 | But certainly there was no objection in principle from the County Council 's Highway Authority and acting as agents for the Department of Transport , as trunk road agent , as a matter of principle , to any of the sectors that we 've been discussing today . |
| 28 | She had filched a bottle of claret from her grandfather 's stock and they had been drinking it liberally . |
| 29 | ‘ My friend Bernice and I have been trying to work out how to stabilize the moons , ’ he said . |
| 30 | For a number of years , my wife Ann and I have been fishing with a party of friends at Altnaharra . |