Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 2 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 3 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 4 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 5 | CLEARING up operations began yesterday after a group of travellers moved , under the threat of eviction , from a site they have been occupying in the centre of the Co . |
| 6 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 7 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 8 | FOR teenagers , Wayne 's World is just the video they have been waiting for . |
| 9 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 10 | It 's the chance they 've been waiting for . |
| 11 | Paul Groombridge says it 's the good news they 've been waiting for . |
| 12 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 13 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 14 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 15 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 16 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 17 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 18 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 19 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 20 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's some depth they 've been working at , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 23 | In the first year of the new tour , Len Owen , then tournament director for the Benson and Hedges tournament at Wembley , revealed that they were expecting to have to pay $500,000 in appearance money , in addition to the same amount they had been offering in prize money when they were a protected event . |
| 24 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 25 | Here is a moment when the danger to the dismasted Hurrying Angel becomes apparent to the exhausted crew as the light grows and they can view the sea they had been fighting in the dark : |
| 26 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 27 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |
| 28 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 29 | If learners can see and recognise the language they 've been studying in use in realistic situations this has two benefits : |
| 30 | A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ . |