Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [pers pn] have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maurice Adams , General Manager of ACET , has recently returned form Uganda where he has been discussing planning for future projects with ACET 's African Director , Anthony Kasozi . |
| 2 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 3 | A third has just returned from an overnight trip to Otterbur in the north-east of England Where it has been helping to move personnel and matériel around the ranges . |
| 4 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 5 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 6 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 7 | Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance . |
| 8 | The minister , just back from Chicago where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks , described the prospect of punitive tariffs as ‘ sad ’ . |
| 9 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 10 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 11 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 12 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've visited Australia 's one and only organic wine producer at Mudgee where he 's been growing organically for 30 years . |
| 14 | it just goes on , but I said to Sandra where they 've been parking all these cars , Alan over the road he comes out just after six o'clock and goes to London every day and I do n't know how he got his car out with the |
| 15 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 16 | Mr Bates , of Brackley , Northants , hit and killed a scientist on a bicycle on his way back from a business meeting in London where he had been drinking wine and sherry , the Court heard . |
| 17 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 18 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |