Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 3 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 4 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 5 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 6 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 7 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 9 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 10 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 11 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 12 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 13 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 14 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 15 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 16 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 17 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 18 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 19 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 20 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 21 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 22 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 23 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 24 | Spurs chief executive Terry Venables said : ‘ I 'm thrilled for Gordon because he has been suffering with this ‘ cheat ’ slur hanging over him . |
| 25 | He has been suffering from gastric flu . |
| 26 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 27 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 28 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 29 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 30 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |