Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 2 | THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . |
| 3 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 4 | The New Right had been showing an interest in Labour 's support for lesbian and gay rights for some time , and a number of organizations such as the National Front , the New Patriotic Movement . |
| 5 | Endill had been dragging an ironing-board back from a room where everything was half buried in the floor when , turning a corner , he bumped into a tall thin man who had appeared from nowhere . |
| 6 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 7 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 8 | Melissa played thoughtfully with her empty coffee mug and reflected on what now seemed the certainty that Rodney Shergold had been having an affair with Angy . |
| 9 | One of the most fearsome figures on television has been entertaining an army of his young fans here in the region . |
| 10 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 11 | For some time , Coutts had been considering an application from Virgin to increase their overdraft facility above the previously agreed limit of £4m . |
| 12 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 13 | Ever since September 1988 , Mr Li 's government has been pressing an austerity programme to cool the economy . |
| 14 | Kate has been overseeing an AIDS education course in Constanta together with a local representative , Ana Ureche . |
| 15 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 16 | Immediately preceding this extracted fragment , the narrator has been describing an incident relevant to the main story . |
| 17 | At CeBIT Fair in Hannover Ericsson Business Networks and Intel Corp have been showing an emulation of a jointly-developed personal computer board designed to enable Windows machines to be linked to PABXs : the personal computer is linked to the switch through a standard ISDN-type connection so the micro can receive facsimile messages , voice-mail , video communications and the like — the thing is expected to appear as a product late this year . |
| 18 | The stock market has been expecting an announcement all week . |
| 19 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 20 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |