Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samsung has been collaborating with HP on some of the low-end PA 7100 widgets , which are ready to pop next month . |
| 2 | Samsung has been collaborating with Hewlett-Packard on some of the low-end PA 7100 machines , which are planned to appear next month . |
| 3 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 4 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 5 | The Halifax , which has been experimenting with auctions for several months , had no fewer than 82 repossessed houses and flats in the sale . |
| 6 | Bosses at Toys R Us , which has been opening on Sundays for more than a year , say the extra day is a definite boost to sales . |
| 7 | Further south , the coastal merchants of west Africa had been trading with Europe for several centuries . |
| 8 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 9 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 10 | All those changes must have been happening in parallel with these other ones . |
| 11 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |
| 12 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 13 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 14 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 16 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 17 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 18 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 19 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 20 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 21 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 22 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 23 | Taylor wo n't know until tomorrow whether David Batty of Leeds is fit , while Paul Gascoigne , despite his wonder goal in Seville , has been suffering from 'flu for more than a week . |
| 24 | On May 20th the police are alleged to have shot dead two people , both veterans of the country 's long civil war , who had been demonstrating in favour of more money for the wounded . |
| 25 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 26 | By dealing in this market , they are taken , unless they expressly agreed otherwise , to have been dealing in accordance with all the customs of the market . |
| 27 | If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke . |
| 28 | An example of this has been evolving at IBM for many years with the AS/400 . |
| 29 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been talking to people about this , 'cos everyone thinks the video is so sexy , you know . |