Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have be [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Curran , the left-wing media intellectual who had been advising on market research , leaked his involvement to Tribune , the established semi-official paper of the traditional Labour left . |
| 2 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 3 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 4 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |
| 5 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 6 | The work we have been doing on the standardisation of company codes has started to pay dividends . |
| 7 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 8 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 9 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 10 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 13 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 14 | This week I 've been concentrating on the serious matter of the winter wardrobe . |
| 15 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 16 | The sight of the greyish kettle beside the gas-ring , and of the yellowish mug which has been drying on the little draining-board for the last fifteen years , makes me think of tea . |
| 17 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 18 | And Dave Fowler , mechanical supervisor ; Billy Bunn , office manager ; John Flint , electrical supervisor and Hugh Chisholm , piping supervisor who have been working on the ENRON power station contract in Teesside . |
| 19 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 20 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 21 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 22 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 23 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 24 | And we have had the trust secretary who has been working on our behalf voluntarily for some time now . |
| 25 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 26 | Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin , who is obliged to play in a police match , are also out , but Andrew Kennedy , the Grammar schoolboy who has been piling on the runs , is available . |
| 27 | Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin , who is obliged to play in a police match , are also out , but Andrew Kennedy , the Grammar schoolboy who has been piling on the runs , is available . |
| 28 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 29 | He 'd met Romano de Sciorto through researching the book he 'd been planning on the history of the islands . |
| 30 | It was body language I 'd been counting on to win her round . |