Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its withers will never win any of the races Ronnie had been telling himself about , and he is reluctant to return from this long , defeated , dark-thoughted walk to break the bad news or his adventure to his wife and daughters . |
| 2 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
| 3 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 4 | This may seem an unorthodox way of assuring management succession but then MB Group has been rearranging itself into a new structure for the future . |
| 5 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 6 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 7 | In the days leading up to this fight to decide who would fight for the world title next year , Violet had been steeling herself to be tough and resilient for the sake of her son . |
| 8 | Up to this point the US had been binding itself to Vietnam with conceptual associations , policy objectives , and some material considerations . |
| 9 | For the last five years Volkov has been drinking himself to death . |
| 10 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 11 | PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves . |