Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | people died by their own hand here in 1992 , the majority of whom had been suffering from depression . |
| 2 | If its august it must be Fairport … for these fifty Americans … some of whom having been coming for ten years … their annual pilgrimage to Oxfordshire for the Fairport Convention festival starts with a meeting with the folk rock band in a local pub . |
| 3 | Explaining why he did not foresee a cut in interest rates in the near future , he said : ‘ I have to take into account the needs of savers , many of whom have been writing to me recently , the exchange rate which causes concern to some people — and I believe what people above all want is stability . ’ |
| 4 | Fishing is let each year to the same people , many of whom have been coming to Brora for decades . |
| 5 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 6 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 7 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 8 | Nobody 's job is secure , but some jobs are more secure , have always been more secure than others and if you 've been , as some of them have been relying on overtime |
| 9 | For English fans , though , there was pleasure that their team had begun to show heart and direction and purpose , all of which had been missing since the Ashes tour of 1986–7 ; while West Indian fans were just happy that their heroes had shown that , after all , W.B. Yeats had got it wrong and the centre could hold . |
| 10 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 11 | Now let me ask you , a lot of you this , some of you have been coming to Congress year after year , you probably come from branches from five hundred , a thousand , fifteen hundred people , but how many people actually go to the branch meetings to elect you to come to Congress ? |
| 12 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 13 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 14 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 15 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 16 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |
| 17 | The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps . |
| 18 | None of what 's been happening to her lately has sat well with her temperament . |
| 19 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 20 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 21 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 22 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 23 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
| 24 | He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’ |
| 25 | Most illuminating was the insight offered by a crew member who said , ‘ Most of us have been watching with our tongues hanging out . ’ |
| 26 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm sorry it 's not cordon bleu dear like you 've been having at Pontepool . |
| 28 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 29 | What was happening clearly had no connection with what had been happening before or would , presumably , happen afterwards . |
| 30 | And the same from we 'd been selling from there as well . |