Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 2 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 3 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 4 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 5 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 6 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 7 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 8 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 9 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 10 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 11 | ‘ Aye , me and one of my mates have been going round the Forestry Commission tracks up in the hills , goin' round at fifty , skiddin' all over the place like a speedway . ’ |
| 12 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 13 | I have tried to describe the process of setting the direction for our constituent businesses and the company as a whole , which I and my colleagues have been evolving over the past few years . |
| 14 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 15 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 16 | Indeed if both the missile and its antidote have been improving at the same rate , we can expect that the latest , most advanced and sophisticated versions , and the earliest , most primitive and simplest versions will be exactly as successful as each other , against their contemporary counter-devices . |
| 17 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 18 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 19 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 20 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 21 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 22 | As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out , he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him . |
| 23 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 24 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 25 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 26 | In any case , there was more than enough to do in repairing the faults of the existing system and correcting the injustices which they and their predecessors had been denouncing since the 1920s . |
| 27 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 28 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 29 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 30 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |