Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the farmer 's eulogy I had been distractedly scratching the cow 's tail and had soiled my hand in the process . |
| 2 | This was subsequently followed in Ansell v. Swift where the defendant who had been lawfully protecting his brother in a fight hit a policeman who sought to restrain him . |
| 3 | During this period Churchill took over the coal negotiations and displayed a vigour for settlement which had been entirely lacking in the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Isabel paused , the refrain she had been absently singing fading away as the soldier stepped into the pleasance at the same moment . |
| 5 | Adams told the court he had been out drinking but had no more than three pints . |
| 6 | A woman who had been up getting herself a glass of water heard the commotion and ran out into the street . |
| 7 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 8 | It was Alejandro Bendana from the Foreign Ministry , a man who had been skilfully avoiding my calls for days . |
| 9 | ‘ Where there 's money to be made you can bet there 's someone making it , ’ said an old man who 'd been silently working his spindle since the conversation began . |
| 10 | She was torn between a desire to hurt him , by releasing the hate and resentment which had been steadily accumulating inside her ever since he had casually annexed her mind and body , and a craven reluctance to precipitate their separation . |
| 11 | That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century . |
| 12 | That domination brought a unity to the north which had been notably lacking since the end of the previous century . |
| 13 | Before leaving this interesting adjective behind , we may note that it introduces a minor discrepancy from a rather general tendency of qualification which has been gradually emerging by implication in the text so far . |
| 14 | Earlier that year it had been uneasily digesting the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev 's secret speech denouncing the excesses of the Stalin era . |
| 15 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |
| 16 | In the end he is n't they who , he sued the insurance company and this , the er solicitor he had were n't getting on very good and they suggested this bloke and he got onto it and he got on it , fifteen thousand quid out of sixteen thousand quids . |