Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been recuperating from the shoulder wound at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic and had made enough progress to prompt speculation that she might , after all , be fit to defend her French Open title . |
| 2 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 3 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 4 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 5 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 6 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 7 | Unless she is very lucky , she will be the one who will be expected to provide the stimulation , for her elderly parent may have been alone since breakfast-time , and will be waiting to be ‘ cheered up ’ by stories of all she has been doing during the day . |
| 8 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 9 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 10 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 11 | I spose he has been fading towards the end of matches , but then again — who has nt ? |
| 12 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 13 | But when I put the phone down I find he has been standing in the doorway . |
| 14 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 15 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 16 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 17 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 18 | He has been working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow since 1980 , but has now decided to move to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the new year . |
| 19 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 20 | ‘ He has been playing on the right side and doing very well , ’ said Bingham who has always been a Black admirer . |
| 21 | He has been playing in the local Welsh leagues , has represented West Indies ‘ B ’ and is being keenly monitored by the county . |
| 22 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the recent adjournment is to allow the provisional liquidator to formalise details of the compensation package that he has been negotiating with the Government of Abu Dhabi . |
| 23 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 24 | Since 1986 , when Parkinson 's disease was first diagnosed , he has been battling against the illness which finally ended his illustrious football career . |
| 25 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 26 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 27 | It has been negotiating with the Treasury for a pay increase . |
| 28 | As the minimum economic scale of production in the assembly plant has been decreasing , it has been increasing at the level of the firm for engineering , design and marketing . |
| 29 | The light from the big bang , though , has come much farther — it has been travelling since the time , less than 1m years after the moment of creation , when the universe became thin enough for radiation emitted by one atom to be unlikely to hit another . |
| 30 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |