Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 2 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 3 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 4 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 5 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 6 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 7 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 8 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 9 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 10 | Enough statistics have been circulating about this venture to sink the Titanic . |
| 11 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 12 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 13 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 14 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 15 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 16 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 17 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 18 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 19 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 20 | URANUS and Neptune have been trundling through this part of your chart for some time which may explain all the false starts , not to mention the general instability . |
| 21 | It is crucial to identify the source of the methane in order to be able to devise appropriate remedies , and FPG has been working in this area for some time . |
| 22 | In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period . |
| 23 | Gardeners have been arguing about this for years , so I hope we can clear the matter up now once and for all . |
| 24 | The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory . |
| 25 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 26 | The comment concerned the standard of opposition Leeds have been facing during this unbeaten run and in particular the last match . |