Example sentences of "be [noun] [pron] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even one would be good enough for there are riders who have been racing for years and have never gone well here . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |
| 3 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 4 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 5 | But yesterday McLean said it was Burgess who had been kicking and stamping on the victim . |
| 6 | It was death she had been expecting , after all . |
| 7 | Hugh Kenner is no doubt right to suppose that it was Pound who had been thinking of it . |