Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] [noun prp] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 2 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 3 | So with eight of the world 's top golfers within five shots of each other and eight different nationalities represented , the stage was set for the grandstand finish which Hammond Wilde had been dreaming about for the best part of a year . |
| 4 | The money from US West will help its balance sheet , which Mr Levin has been trying to clean up . |
| 5 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 6 | They only escaped with about twenty five pounds , money which Mrs Selman had been saving to pay bills . |
| 7 | Topix Abteilungsrechner & Workstations magazine reports that an announcement regarding the B20 , on which Siemens Nixdorf has been pinning so many hopes , was planned originally for the autumn . |
| 8 | In fact , the 1983 accounts were issued very late and heavily qualified because , by that time , the problems of Esal commodities ( whose bills Berg had been discounting ) were well known . |
| 9 | He said what Sarah Fleming had been thinking . |
| 10 | He hesitated ; best not to tell Jared of what Havvie Blaine had been saying of her ; he was fearful that if his brother knew he would do Havvie a mortal injury — Best perhaps to warn Mary Tunstall privately . |
| 11 | Whatever the Chinese leaders said , whatever Mao Tse-Tung said , did it amount to a complete abandonment of what Karl Marx had been arguing for , what er position which Lenin claimed to stand in in Russia and so on . |
| 12 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 13 | He asked what Angela Morgan had been drawing on every month and found his belief confirmed . |