Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 2 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 3 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 4 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 5 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 6 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 7 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 8 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 9 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 10 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |