Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 2 | He said in a Commons written reply that there has been mounting concern over the costs of veterinary supervision , with hourly fees reaching £40 . |
| 3 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 4 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 5 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 6 | How many of you have been hearing whispers in your mind that you have been ignoring ? … . |
| 7 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 8 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
| 9 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 10 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 11 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 12 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 13 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 14 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 15 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 16 | Which is the story that you 've been hearing about ? |
| 17 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 18 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 19 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 20 | There are , however , different levels of publication that could be developed which would eventually help more material to become available at the professional level that we have been discussing . |
| 21 | ‘ We got that little bit of luck that we 've been missing . |
| 22 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 23 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
| 24 | New York cabbie Jimmy said : ‘ It 's been a long , awful struggle that we 've been fighting since we were kids . |
| 25 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 26 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 27 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
| 28 | It is an attempt to ask you to consider to maintain the sort of progress that we have been making erm in past years , but it 's a problem is not going to go away . |
| 29 | I think it is a tribute to the work that we 've been doing recently that we have been invited to join IUCN . |
| 30 | So System Ten is the culmination of several years of work that we 've been doing with other hardware and software vendors but most importantly with our customers . |