Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 3 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 4 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 5 | " This could be the opportunity you 've been waiting for , " she said slowly , her eyes black shadows in her face . |
| 6 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
| 7 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |
| 8 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 9 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 10 | The housewife who had been sleeping quietly after a Bank Holiday party when The Fox struck was identified by name , age and location . |
| 11 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 12 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 13 | The following morning you washed the shirt you 'd been wearing , the pullover and the trousers . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , Superintendent , he 's the shit who 's been screwing my wife . |
| 15 | I mean , for ‘ O ’ level composition , certainly for the Board we 've been doing here , it was continuing a melody ; set pattern eight bars ; modulation ; answering phrase ; … harmonizing in four parts ; set chords … so it was never free composition . |
| 16 | In this Karajan proved the catalyst everyone had been waiting for . |
| 17 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
| 18 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 19 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 20 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 21 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 22 | Certainly , the United States administration had vastly over-reacted to Nkrumah 's book Neo-Colonialism : The last stage of imperialism ( 1965 ) , though the views he advanced were becoming the commonplace of Third World writing . |
| 23 | The Swindon success story is n't just on the field … off the field they 've been rebuilding too … the overdraft is below a million … but the world of football the town of Swindon still wonders if the County Ground could cope could afford the premier league … |
| 24 | The Germans who have been facing us all these weeks have pulled out and are now dug in in a thickly wooded area about three-hundred yards from No. 4 Commando . |
| 25 | It was warm in the kitchen and the fire cast a soft light on Carrie who was kneeling in front of the fire , folding the blanket she had been airing . |
| 26 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 27 | Before recording any detailed information on the lesson , it is important to ensure that the classroom atmosphere is such that the material and the teaching it supports are getting reasonable attention from the class . |
| 28 | Poor old Ken Brown , frustrated beyond his tolerance level , slid from the pedestal he had been erecting for himself following early and rebellious years , when , during the Murphy Cup at St. Pierre , his driver and a wooden tee box converged at not inconsiderable speed . |
| 29 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 30 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |