Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 2 | Jenny Pitman 's been hit with flu … so assistant David Stait has been getting Gary ready for the gold cup … |
| 3 | Only to find , first , that genuinely ill as he was , he had missed the local paper saying the psychopath had been caught , and that the compulsive liar Brenda had been telling everyone he was her lover , a rumour that had got back to his wife whose mac he had by mistake worn during the murder and had been unable to destroy . |
| 4 | Twenty eight year old Susan Magill has been trying a homoeopathic approach to help her improve her diet and lose weight . |
| 5 | Top star Scaggs has been playing a Lowden since last year , when it was introduced to him after a concert and he was so taken by it , that he has now persuaded fellow stars Glenn Campbell and Charlie Daniels to buy them as well . |
| 6 | Friends and neighbours of the murdered eight-year old Sean Williams have been putting flowers outside the block of flats where he was found . |
| 7 | Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight . |
| 8 | And should n't Lucy say something about her story , the subtle and extravagant passes Jay had been making at her all evening ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 11 | Only the previous day Louisa had been pondering a passage from the Aurelia occulta in which Mercurius promised to bestow on the adept the powers of male and female , of heaven and earth . |
| 12 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 13 | Fraud squad officers investigating the affairs of the late Robert Maxwell have been searching the Oxfordshire home of his son , Kevin . |
| 14 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 15 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 16 | He got out with a fractured skull — but had a mental blackout and forgot his beautiful wife Kathy had been sitting beside him . |
| 17 | As she scrambled around and tried to stay level , she watched for Josie 's return with the thought that , when she finally arrived , she 'd damn well see what a tough time Lucy had been having . |
| 18 | To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference . |
| 19 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |
| 20 | No sign yet of the symmetrical multi-processors IBM has been working on with Groupe Bull SA . |
| 21 | He nodded in the direction of the balled-up overall Porter had been wearing . |
| 22 | In The Secret Garden Mary has been watching a robin which has let her come quite near . |
| 23 | Until today 's new proposals Britain had been cautioning against such an operation because of the dangers to aircrew and the risk of killing or injuring people on the ground . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In recent years BR has been developing techniques for giving each of the business sectors responsibility for part of the network 's infrastructure costs . |
| 26 | TOP MARKS : Whatever financial advice Johnny 's been giving Fergie has obviously paid off as the Duchess shows that she 's well and truly on top of the subject |
| 27 | Collins 's wife Jill and young daughter Lily have been living in Los Angeles since April in a Tudor-style £5 million Beverly Hills mansion . |
| 28 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 29 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for her electricity bill . |