Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , me and one of my mates have been going round the Forestry Commission tracks up in the hills , goin' round at fifty , skiddin' all over the place like a speedway . ’ |
| 3 | I have tried to describe the process of setting the direction for our constituent businesses and the company as a whole , which I and my colleagues have been evolving over the past few years . |
| 4 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 5 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 6 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 7 | In any case , there was more than enough to do in repairing the faults of the existing system and correcting the injustices which they and their predecessors had been denouncing since the 1920s . |
| 8 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 9 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 10 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 11 | The nervousness in Downing Street is evident in the extent to which Major and his officials have been stressing since Clinton 's election that the two have a potentially good relationship . |
| 12 | Green also records what his children have been doing by themselves — the girls visiting Keswick neighbours to drink tea , or going with their brothers on a journey to Kendal , or sometimes dining out , as when they visited Mr. James Fleming at Grasmere . |
| 13 | He and his men had been resting in the farm when they saw Sharpe 's ignominious flight . |
| 14 | For a decade our groups have been staying at his home in a village above Imlil , the base for Jbel Toubkal , the alluring highest peak in the country , conveniently sited on the horizon south of Marrakech . |
| 15 | It has been alleged that the accidents have occurred because your drivers have been working over the legal limit and that your vehicles have not been serviced . |
| 16 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |