Example sentences of "[coord] have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 2 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 3 | IDG World Expo is trying to pull together a Unix Fair ‘ 93/Tokyo for December 8 to 10 at the Pacifico Yokohama and has been touting for prospects for the show at UniForum . |
| 4 | David Cox studied the horn in New Zealand and has been working in London since 1984 , with Quintus , the Albion and Almeida Ensembles , the Sixteen , the Hanover Band and the Academy of Ancient Music . |
| 5 | Jane Henderson , who initiated the arts projects at West Middlesex University Hospital and has been working in Hospitals since 1986 , is committed to the community aspect of her work , but she is not blind to the costs of her own creativity . |
| 6 | Back down to Earth , and having been grumbling for months about high prices and offhand service I decided last week to try TGI FRIDAY 's AMERICAN BISTRO just newly opened in Gordon Street , Glasgow . |
| 7 | Many of the farmers were older ( 45–64 years of age ) and had been farming since school days , with attendance at training courses their only form of further education . |
| 8 | They had already become British subjects and had been trading in corn from the United States of America and morocco to Madeira . |
| 9 | My father had first er he had , him being an engineer , and had been working in Glasgow after his er having served his apprenticeship at Amos the , it was the thing to go to Glasgow in these days which was the centre of all engineering activity , and er to gain experience he went to Glasgow . |
| 10 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 11 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 12 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 13 | The Labour party cloaks under expressions such as ’ attack on civil rights ’ the fact that such people have not registered for the tax and have been indulging in tax avoidance , a practice for which the Labour party still shows some sympathy . |
| 14 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 15 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |