Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] has [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies .
2 Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results .
3 James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time .
4 James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time .
5 THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis .
6 Since Gooding 's detention in Coney Hill , the city 's MP has been campaigning for his transfer to more secure premises .
7 Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six .
8 Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him .
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