Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 2 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 3 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 4 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 5 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 6 | Gregory and Gary O'Kane have been looking sharp in the Saffron jersey recently while Jim Close and Sean Paul McKillop are match-winners in their own right . |
| 7 | But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years . |
| 8 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 9 | Besides , he could just imagine Cashman 's fury if he discovered that Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew . |
| 10 | Hundreds of refugees in Srebrenica in eastern eastern Bosnia have been living rough on the streets and eating bread made from corn husks . |
| 11 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 12 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 13 | And I think Peter 's been saying this for almost well since he 's come back anyway that , I ca n't work because the stock figures have not been updated . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd very much like to know , ’ he said , ‘ what Masklin has been doing these past few weeks … ’ |
| 15 | Gosse had been watching all in silence , his jaw clenched , his neck muscles taut . |
| 16 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 17 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 18 | Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight . |
| 19 | The Jarvis ' from Frimley Stables at Aston Upthorpe have been getting ready for their big day . |
| 20 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 21 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |
| 22 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |