Example sentences of "[noun] have been reading " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 2 | Lucy had been reading The Saint from her father 's shelves when all of the other girls had their noses in Black Beauty . |
| 3 | Karl Hammond has been reading the Royal Society 's report on risk |
| 4 | Fred Thomson has been reading Home Sweet Home by Roy Ramsay . |
| 5 | The chairman , wearing a fawn sports jacket , said he apologised if he had ‘ caused any offence ’ , but said he was annoyed because Mr Loveluck-Edwards had been reading a novel in court . |
| 6 | The man on the right had been reading while the scintillating cut and thrust of Alf and Bert had dominated the ward : Amiss thought that a good sign . |
| 7 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 8 | Werewolf had been reading the owner 's handbook of Patterson 's BMW and experimenting with the passenger seat , having achieved what seemed like a dozen different positions before we got south of the river . |
| 9 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge had been reading Purchas 's His Pilgrimage after taking some opium : In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall , wherein are fertile Meddowes , pleasant Springs , delightful Streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure . |
| 10 | Erika remembered the Watchword Omi had been reading on the day when Karl had come . |
| 11 | Anna Grigorevna had been reading Crime and Punishment in the magazine Russian Herald , and she thought she recognized the object ‘ which played such a big part in the Marmeladov family ’ . |
| 12 | People had been reading him , recommending the books to each other , lending them . ’ |
| 13 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 14 | The poem is a response to some book Leapor has been reading . |
| 15 | The writers that men have been reading recently ( Nicholson Baker is a prime example ) , on the other hand , ask us to participate in their creation and observation ; we are invited to share the joke , and thus made to feel important . |
| 16 | Sean French has been reading the Bible |
| 17 | ( The writer 's just-seven-year-old son has been reading People we know — level 6 , book 1 in the Ginn Reading Programme — to him this morning , with evident enjoyment . |
| 18 | The pupil is 14 : the class had been reading Leon Garfield 's story . |
| 19 | ‘ Michael 's been reading his book of Things a Director 's Supposed to Say again , ’ a voice murmured somewhere above her ear , and Shannon turned with a grin to the tall blonde woman at her side . |