Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 2 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 3 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 4 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 5 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 6 | She pointed to an 11-year-old girl who had been hovering in the doorway since I arrived . |
| 7 | As the elected representatives of governing bodies of Scottish sport we have been following closely the lottery bill 's progress through Parliament . |
| 8 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 9 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 10 | Would-be buyers who have been returning home empty-handed ( because they have not been offering sufficiently high prices ) have not learned that it is necessary to outbid other buyers ; would-be sellers who return home with unsold goods or resources ( because they have been asking prices that are too high ) have not learned that they must , if they wish to sell , be satisfied with lower prices . |
| 11 | The plan was designed to give France the initiative in German affairs which had been slipping away from her . |
| 12 | In March it was learned that there is in existence a French organisation which has been working towards the provision of a water supply to the village of Atea and the construction of a better quality road to the village than had previously existed . |
| 13 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 14 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 15 | Just what is this little cat-and-mouse game you 've been playing ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The thing is , Management will listen to him and he 'll get what he wants , not like poor old Ron who 's been waffling away for years and not getting anywhere . |
| 17 | Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man . |
| 18 | The problems with the New Age Travellers also helped confirm the fears of nearby villagers who have been trying to get the festival stopped for the past year . |
| 19 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 20 | This course gives students the opportunity to study in-depth the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 21 | This option is of particular interest to students who wish to increase their awareness and understanding of the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 22 | It is surprising how quickly the survivors returned to the civilized life they had been living before . |
| 23 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 24 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 25 | Having displayed in this clear format what has been happening , you will then be able to interpret the general trend , and raise questions regarding those years which proved to be exceptions to the overall picture . |
| 26 | That is hardly surprising , because since I embarked upon this historical analysis I have been quoting virtually verbatim from a speech made on 16 December 1976 in this House by the now right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) , which can be found at columns 1832 and 1833 of the Official Report for that date . |
| 27 | Matthew Radford is an English painter who has been working in New York for the past ten years . |
| 28 | This has meant a fall in the demand for residential care which had been increasing rapidly in previous years and it is the duty of the relevant authorities to plan future provision er so that everything will work smoothly for those most in need . |
| 29 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 30 | And anyway I walked past him and he went back and he was sh moaning at her so erm two of the old boys he 'd been working with said whatever 's all that about ? |