Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] has been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 2 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 3 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 4 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 5 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 6 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 7 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 8 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 9 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 10 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 11 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 12 | Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you . |