Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most fearsome figures on television has been entertaining an army of his young fans here in the region . |
| 2 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 3 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 4 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 5 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 6 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 7 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 8 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 9 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 10 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 11 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 12 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 13 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 14 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the education minister , had been considering an appeal for support but turned down the college in December . |
| 15 | For some time , Coutts had been considering an application from Virgin to increase their overdraft facility above the previously agreed limit of £4m . |
| 16 | As the crowd grew , pressing against the window , the Divisional Police Commissioner Rousselet , who had been keeping an eye on events , sent a policeman down with orders to have the nude painting removed from the window . |
| 17 | It was overseen by , the company 's operations director , who had been keeping an eye on the Basingstoke premises during its six-month run-down . |
| 18 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 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 . |
| 21 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 22 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 26 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 27 | Stewart Skett , 21 , who had been having an affair with Mrs Green , a student nurse , yesterday denied having anything to do with her death . |
| 28 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 29 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 30 | 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 . |