Example sentences of "[noun] they have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 2 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 3 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 4 | Since December they have been pouring from a new fissure in Etna , 7,500ft above sea level . |
| 5 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 6 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 7 | CLEARING up operations began yesterday after a group of travellers moved , under the threat of eviction , from a site they have been occupying in the centre of the Co . |
| 8 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 9 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 10 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 11 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 12 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 13 | Like the GenSyn apes they had been experimenting upon . |
| 14 | But despite severe financial problems they have been growing in number and now produce around 40 per cent of Israel 's agricultural output and almost seven per cent of its industrial goods . |
| 15 | FOR teenagers , Wayne 's World is just the video they have been waiting for . |
| 16 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 17 | It 's the chance they 've been waiting for . |
| 18 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 19 | Paul Groombridge says it 's the good news they 've been waiting for . |
| 20 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 21 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 22 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 23 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 24 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 25 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 26 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 27 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 28 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 29 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 30 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |