Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [verb] be [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 6 | But , if underfloor engines and transmissions were to be used , they had to be in a different league of reliability and performance from the DMUs which BR had been running since the 1950s . |
| 7 | The new series , called the GG11 series , will replace the Fury series , which Fujitsu has been fabricating under licence from Vitesse Semiconductor Corp , Camarillo , California and consists of six types , with between 10,000 gates and 25,000 gates . |
| 8 | The loss of Ozawa was seen by many as a serious blow to Kaifu 's position , not least because it removed the chief architect of the process of co-operation between the LDP , Komeito and the DSP which Ozawa had been constructing in the Diet . |
| 9 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 10 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 11 | The language used to describe this is reminiscent of Harrison , as well as clearly relating to the technique of Charlie Mears , Tiresias , and the dromenon- like patterning with which Eliot had been experimenting in the quatrain poems . |
| 12 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 13 | The one thing he did n't ask , for which I was grateful , was what Salome had been doing with Alec Reynolds at midnight on a Saturday down in darkest Kent . |
| 14 | Was this what Edward had been waiting for ? |
| 15 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 16 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 17 | He thought about what Suragai had been saying about the origins of mankind . |
| 18 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 19 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 20 | The treaty conceded most of what Bruce had been fighting for . |
| 21 | Later she wondered what Brian had been doing on the towpath , forgetting that his favourite restaurant commanded a view of the canal . |
| 22 | A few miles later , Rogers asked what Gabriel had been doing in the church . |
| 23 | Community care is what SSDs have been doing for decades . |
| 24 | The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s . |
| 25 | We 're just hearing what Stan 's been saying about the way the Tourist Boards are erm classifying hotels and trying to assist us , the consumer , I mean how do you view it ? |