Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 2 | 1.25:ALTHOUGH she has form over three miles , Ketti has been running like a non stayer at that trip this year . |
| 3 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 4 | Previously , Mr Ntoni-Nzinga had been studying for a doctorate in theology and anthropology in Manchester , UK . |
| 5 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 6 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 7 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 8 | Barnes has been suffering from a hamstring strain , but he was able to train on Thursday and yesterday , and Robson had expected him to be fit for Chorzow , where a point will be enough to take England to Italy as winners of Group Two . |
| 9 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 10 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 11 | It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly . |
| 12 | Shortly before the attack , Mick had been dancing at a Singles Night at the Wiltshire Hotel . |
| 13 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 14 | Senior staff at the Louvre have been smarting after a petition launched by eighty-eight year old French abstract artist Jean Bazaine and an article in Point de Vue — a magazine specialising in coverage of European royalty — accused them of gross negligence in their ambitious restoration of one of the museum 's largest pictures , ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ by Paolo Cagliari , better known as Veronese . |
| 15 | Striker Alex Dyer has been suffering with a tummy bug — Nick Cusack who scored a hat-trick in the reserves is ready and willing . |
| 16 | Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction . |
| 17 | Hitachi has been talking about a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ using the RISC for a couple of years now , but is using a Sparc front-end for OSF/1 Unix on its existing mainframes ( CI No 2,144 ) . |
| 18 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 19 | STEPHEN HENDRY has been living under a Fatal Attraction nightmare since September . |
| 20 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 21 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 22 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 23 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 24 | Daniel had been officiating at a funeral . |
| 25 | Well we 're looking at a particular condition of the lung that affects patients in intensive care ; it 's a disease a bit like pneumonia , it 's called the adult respiratory distress syndrome , and it 's a disease that we believe is associated with a lot of fluid in the lung , and a compatriot of mine , Dr Young , and Dr McQuillam have been working on a research that er has asked the question — ‘ if we reduce the amount of fluid in the lung , do these patients get better and get better quicker ’ . |
| 26 | THE New Zealand selectors of the World XV who invited South African centre MARTIN KNOETZE to step in for England 's Will Carling have been labouring under a rather severe misapprehension . |
| 27 | ‘ Brian has been suffering from a loss of confidence , ’ said Roxburgh of the player who was relegated to the Manchester United substitutes ' bench on Saturday . |
| 28 | Gough has been suffering from a groin injury , but trained yesterday and should play . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Liddell had been working as a field missionary in war-torn Siaochang . |
| 30 | Quinn had been doodling on a pad . |