Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 7 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 8 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 9 | The nervousness in Downing Street is evident in the extent to which Major and his officials have been stressing since Clinton 's election that the two have a potentially good relationship . |
| 10 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 11 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 12 | Green also records what his children have been doing by themselves — the girls visiting Keswick neighbours to drink tea , or going with their brothers on a journey to Kendal , or sometimes dining out , as when they visited Mr. James Fleming at Grasmere . |
| 13 | Originally from Inverness , Mr Cordial and his family have been living in Durham for 40 years . |
| 14 | ‘ David Mellor and his family have been coming to my restaurant for 18 years and they are my very good friends , ’ says Moziruddin . |
| 15 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 16 | Community care is what SSDs have been doing for decades . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's what men have been doing for centuries . ’ |
| 18 | That kind of riding is what horses have been doing for centuries . |
| 19 | Family planning experts claim it 's what women have been waiting for . |
| 20 | This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers . |
| 21 | For a decade our groups have been staying at his home in a village above Imlil , the base for Jbel Toubkal , the alluring highest peak in the country , conveniently sited on the horizon south of Marrakech . |
| 22 | It has been alleged that the accidents have occurred because your drivers have been working over the legal limit and that your vehicles have not been serviced . |
| 23 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |