Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [noun] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Mr. Dolman had been working at The Albion Hotel , fell from a very tall ladder and was killed . |
| 2 | Edward could see that not only Desmond Morton had been drinking . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Mr Jagger has been attempting to put the record straight about his musical colleague , Mr William Wyman , the bass ( sic ) player , who recently declared that the belipped chanteur was ‘ an egomaniac ’ and then went on to dispute Mr Jagger 's claim to be the author of the seminal lied , ‘ Jumping Jack Flash ’ . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Fernanda Eberstadt has been practising as an expert on captivity and escape , and on the beliefs established for later generations by the children of Israel . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Oxford University have been struggling against Nottinghamshire at the Parks.The visitors declared at two hundred and twenty four ( 224 ) for four . |
| 6 | Presumably Mr Malik had been giving her tutorials . |
| 7 | Dozens more East Germans have been going to the West German Embassy in Warsaw , where by yesterday evening more than 400 had collected . |
| 8 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 9 | But even John Lewis has been feeling the pinch . |
| 10 | Mr Pollards father david also gave evidence , saying in a statement how Gary Burn had been sobbing hystericaly when tring to explain to him what had happened . |
| 11 | Members will want to know how Pat Keen has been getting on since she gave up her classes in the London area and moved to Newquay in Cornwall to look after her 94–year-old mother . |
| 12 | However , since then Mr Barnes has been considering starting proceedings under the 1976 Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act , which allows for prosecutions of individuals in the Republic for offences allegedly committed in Britain . |
| 13 | Since then Mr Crangle had been working in secret on another expedition . |
| 14 | With hindsight , one can see how Mr Gorbachev has been preparing the ground for this week 's changes . |
| 15 | Maybe O Leary 's been getting the coaching right in that department , or maybe a bit of luck away has steadied their nerve , perhaps a bit of both . |
| 16 | And then Sinead Sinead 's been collecting a whole lot with and everything and she 's got the most . |
| 17 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 18 | The oval area from where Simon Cormack had been standing when he died to the point where he stopped rolling , at the heart of the larger circle , was treated with especial care . |
| 19 | Quigley just stood there , his immense arms loose at his side , as the mass of the congregation , murmuring among themselves like extras in a bad production of a Shakespeare play , swept after Pike as he turned and , bucket in hand , ran off across the Common towards the spot where Mr Marr had been sitting the night the aliens came . |
| 20 | Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night . |
| 21 | About twenty yards from where Mr Marr had been sitting , the grass had been flattened . |
| 22 | Gayflowers is where Walton residents have been going to buy their flowers for James . |
| 23 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 24 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 25 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |