Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] been [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | The following morning you washed the shirt you 'd been wearing , the pullover and the trousers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 20 | He was still wrapped in the cloak he had been wearing when , as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church , he had gone into the front lines with his men , completely unarmed . |
| 21 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 22 | At a Sept. 5 news conference Afewerki accused France , Egypt and Saudi Arabia of fostering " conflict on the borders and the blackmail we have been facing during the past three months " . |
| 23 | He let the foot he 'd been massaging fall to the floor with a thud , and she winced . |
| 24 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 25 | Ace asked in a tone that betrayed the worry she 'd been trying to hide . |
| 26 | The worry he had been feeling about Janine was replaced by elation . |
| 27 | And he started up in the spring and the bucket he 'd been carrying had left a ridge in his hand . |
| 28 | Quiss bellowed ; he turned the attendant upside down and plonked its head into the bucket it had been carrying . |
| 29 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 30 | At this stage it began to make a noise , or , rather , Twoflower started to hear the noise it had been making all along . |