Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 2 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 3 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 4 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 5 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 6 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 7 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 8 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 9 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 10 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 11 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 12 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 13 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 14 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 15 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 17 | Unix International has been arming itself for the war against Microsoft NT . |
| 18 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 19 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
| 20 | So there are a few initiatives there , but I do n't think there 's been done anything on the music front though . |
| 21 | ‘ From what Superintending Constable Aplin 's been telling me along the way , if we can solve one , we 're likely to find the perpetrator of the other . |
| 22 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 23 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 24 | But with office facilities so scarce in the Commons , one of the most reliable is to see who 's been offered what by the Whips . |
| 25 | Who 's been beating you about the head ? ’ |
| 26 | He 's been interesting himself in the new C.O. , Brenda Pridmore . |
| 27 | It 's been staring me in the face . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 30 | And that 's been another thing that 's been worrying me over the weekend . |