Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] has [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference . |
| 8 | No sign yet of the symmetrical multi-processors IBM has been working on with Groupe Bull SA . |
| 9 | In The Secret Garden Mary has been watching a robin which has let her come quite near . |
| 10 | In recent years BR has been developing techniques for giving each of the business sectors responsibility for part of the network 's infrastructure costs . |