Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny Pitman 's been hit with flu … so assistant David Stait has been getting Gary ready for the gold cup … |
| 2 | Twenty eight year old Susan Magill has been trying a homoeopathic approach to help her improve her diet and lose weight . |
| 3 | Friends and neighbours of the murdered eight-year old Sean Williams have been putting flowers outside the block of flats where he was found . |
| 4 | THE players of the English Shakespeare Company have been wowing audiences in the African bush with a production of Macbeth . |
| 5 | Recently the 35-year old Belfast man has been playing the ‘ Irish sweeper ’ role , in front of the back four . |
| 6 | Since early February oyster-catchers had been arriving back from spending the winter around the big estuaries of mainland Britain and by the end of March were well distributed in coastal areas . |
| 7 | Since taking over from Left-winger David Hunt , former Thatcherite Mr Redwood has been trying to reassure the Welsh that there will be no dramatic change in Welsh Office policy . |
| 8 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 9 | The promising Belfast youngster has been gaining experience on the international front among the Federation Cup aspirants in Nottingham . |
| 10 | Fraud squad officers investigating the affairs of the late Robert Maxwell have been searching the Oxfordshire home of his son , Kevin . |
| 11 | Louisa was surprised by the arrival and glad of it , for young Frank Wharton had been ragging mercilessly her occasional graceless descents to the ice , petticoats and undergarments protruding from her skirt , skates flailing above them . |
| 12 | Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation . |
| 13 | Welcome back:Thousands of new Oxford students have been signing up for anything from scuba diving to tiddlywinks , in this year 's freshers ' fair . |
| 14 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 15 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for her electricity bill . |