Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ex-boyfriend who 's been helping . |
| 2 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 3 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 4 | I carve the meat and prepare vegetables and stuffings — all my life I have been preparing things for somebody ! |
| 5 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My friend , all my life I have been lying . |
| 7 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 8 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 9 | The working groups are currently on working on that , and they , my colleagues I assume are talking to the the officers of the Social Services about that , what is happening , but the final outcome has yet to appear . |
| 10 | They had a warrant to arrest her grandson who 'd been visiting the pensioner at her sheltered accommodation in Cheltenham . |
| 11 | Well Lindsey she 's to go to a disco night in in a fortnight 's time all her friends she says are going . |
| 12 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 13 | ‘ But if you look at their records they have been knocking over leading Test match sides in this way for years . |
| 14 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |
| 15 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 16 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 17 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |
| 18 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
| 19 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Clare told his son he had been saving the money he would have spent on his university education for him . |
| 21 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 22 | If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable . |
| 23 | The women at the sit-in issued the following appeal : ’ On the occasion of International Women 's Day , we , the Palestinian Women have been on a hunger strike since February 23 , 1989 in solidarity with our sons who have been holding hunger strikes in Israeli jails in protest against their inhuman prison conditions . |
| 24 | Our apologies to all our readers who have been struggling with this . |
| 25 | That all our lives we 've been waiting to meet . |
| 26 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 27 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 28 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 29 | This report about your son 's adjustment to group life in camp has been compiled by the members of our staff who have been working with Leonard . |
| 30 | ‘ For your information I 've been making a cradle for Maggie 's baby while you was gone , ’ she said . |