Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] and have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 2 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 3 | As for Master Gates , he came home a war hero and has been enjoying the fruits of his fame ever since . ’ |
| 4 | Latterly he had been involved in eel fishing and had been seeking a place to keep his eels alive and fresh . |
| 5 | The court heard he 'd spent the day hunting and had been drinking to keep up his body warmth . |
| 6 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 7 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 8 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 9 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 10 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 11 | Jane Henderson , who initiated the arts projects at West Middlesex University Hospital and has been working in Hospitals since 1986 , is committed to the community aspect of her work , but she is not blind to the costs of her own creativity . |
| 12 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 13 | The fact we have got a good track record and have been serving the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries for some time means we can get work but we have to cut our margins . |