Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I I 've been selling hairpieces for twenty three years so I 'm probably better in a better position than anybody here to explain the emotions of men who 're losing their hair . |
| 2 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 3 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 4 | Lilian Ormerod , 63 , of Stonedale Crescent , Norris Green , Liverpool , had been in Broadgreen Hospital 's cardio-thoracic centre , in which she had been given blood transfusions and other treatment for heart disease . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 6 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 7 | It is clear that the majority of students entering higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications are mature students , and the research which we have been discussing deals almost exclusively with students who are not just non-traditional entrants but also mature . |
| 8 | Kinlen et al have carried out a number of analyses relating to areas in which there has been increased population mixing and have found an increased incidence of childhood leukaemia in some of these areas . |
| 9 | It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge . |
| 10 | They wound Sycorax 's light dry spoil in two banana leaves , laid lengthwise and sewn together with dried strips of aloe , and then chose to dig a vertical grave at the foot of the saman tree , the designated place , for which they had been granted permission . |
| 11 | The transition period after leaving institutional care has also been documented as a critical time , when young people may be forced to return to the unhappy home situation from which they had been removed years earlier . |
| 12 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 13 | Mafouz 's record-breaking account of the school journey to the Natural History Museum , for which he had been awarded alpha double plus , was in pride of place . |
| 14 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 15 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 16 | Reductivism and retributivism do not exhaust all the possible justifications for punishment , or the aims which it has been suggested punishment can rightly pursue . |
| 17 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 18 | Dorothea Gilberd edged away from the parents to whom she had been uttering words of reassurance about their little Philip 's future and glided quite at random in the direction of Tom Tedder . |
| 19 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 20 | The company with whom she had been playing tennis and swimming and was now sitting , were an old friend she had known since Pony Club days , and her newly acquired husband , and David Fairfax , Junior , son of the house , spectacled and earnest and studying to be a chartered accountant . |
| 21 | Beforehand , her PR people urge me not to ask her about Eric Clapton ( with whom she has been seen dining on at least one occasion at San Lorenzo 's in London ) , but that she would be willing to talk about her alcoholism . |
| 22 | Do you she 's been shopping Tuesday and Wednesday . |
| 23 | He had dropped the joviality , even dropped as well the slightly secretive air of one who had been given permission to tell , but not all . |
| 24 | ‘ So you 're the one who 's been making nuisance calls to Brown Owl ’ |
| 25 | Today , commenting on the Labour leadership election , claims that ‘ The only one who has been talking sense is John Prescott . |
| 26 | The difference is that they are now employed by the businesses to whom they have been supplying services for some time . ’ |
| 27 | As a publish writer yourself I told her I 've been published articles you will understand the need for market targeting and as you mention at twenty thousand words is not full-length , though this could be if was aimed at children . |
| 28 | It was a fabled street , but for him it had been forbidden territory . |
| 29 | He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too . |
| 30 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |