Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have been [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two weeks later comes the West End début of an actress who has been brightening the fringe and television sets for several years now : 26-year old Serena Gordon . |
| 2 | The show ( from 3 December until 2 January ) is accompanied by a colour catalogue with an essay by Dan Cameron , a New York critic who has been keeping an eagle eye on the Spanish scene for some years . |
| 3 | The round-headed boy who had been polishing the Daimler 's windows ambled up and competently placed his hands on the rein either side of the black mare 's mouth . |
| 4 | She knew the rebel baron who had been ravaging the countryside , the man whose name Ralf had been unable to recall . |
| 5 | But when she went out , she saw the girl who had been doing the flowers waiting in the porch , and guessed that she must be the Vicar 's wife . |
| 6 | She heard a noise , but , before she could take any evasive action , a cycle came spinning round the corner and the sharp eyes of the girl who had been cleaning the farm were on her intently . |
| 7 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 8 | Gooch the general who 's been switching the field around as to suit each batsman . |
| 9 | Even more despicable was the betrayal of Phan Boi Chau , a nationalist leader who had been fighting the French since 1908 . |
| 10 | They had a warrant to arrest her grandson who 'd been visiting the pensioner at her sheltered accommodation in Cheltenham . |
| 11 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |
| 12 | The serving wench who had been carrying the General 's spare hand in a cardboard box stepped out on to the balcony to join us . |
| 13 | The outgoing person who has been doing the job should be consulted as part of this , although it should be borne in mind that he or she may have certain prejudices which preclude their giving a totally satisfactory answer . |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder if she spoke to the person who 's been doing the caretaking ? |
| 15 | ‘ He 's a curiously authoritative figure , ’ says Tom Nairn , the political philosopher who has been pondering the various strains of British nationalism for years . |
| 16 | In fact it has been mainly the lesbians in the girls ' work movement who have been developing a determination to make the links between all oppressions , and who have become very clear about the need for that work to be accessible to all young women . |
| 17 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |
| 18 | And leading the way on the one-mile hike through the park was a Belfast man who has been helping the Ulster-led Everest expedition walk to the top of the world . |
| 19 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |
| 20 | Tonight the man who 's been leading the fight for pensioners in Oxford said there was also much at state for those still working for the former Maxwell companies . |
| 21 | The first one will keep the rope taut as you move offstage and run round the back and take over from the second helper who has been keeping the ‘ load ’ end taut . |
| 22 | The debt counsellor who 'd been helping the Harrises said Dorend Ltd had agreed to wave interest of around £30,000 . |
| 23 | A debt counsellor who 's been helping the family says the lender has shown no compassion . |
| 24 | Dick Evans , the BAe chief executive who has been leading the negotiations , said yesterday that he was now looking forward to further discussions with the Saudi authorities about their specific requirements and priorities . |
| 25 | They 're being sold by an enthusiast who 'd been collecting the models since he was a boy . |
| 26 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 27 | We studied 20 children with coeliac disease who had been following a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |
| 28 | She was on the point of abandoning the plan when a neighbour , a solicitor who had been advising the magazine , explained that Neville and company were respectable young men really , from decent backgrounds — after all , his father had been a colonel in the Australian Army . |