Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun prp] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the tension Gascoigne had been suffering was suddenly released , and he celebrated by sprinting to the sidelines . |
| 2 | Etna has two summit craters , the Main Crater and the North-East Crater ( both lying along the line of a fissure ) , and the North-East Crater had been showing mild Strombolian activity for many years prior to the 1971 eruption . |
| 3 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 4 | In this machine , some of the work Unisys has been carrying out with academic partners such as Caltec , JPL and with French microkernel specialists Chorus Systemes , will come to light for the first time . |
| 5 | G. The tourist industry of the South West has been growing since the railways were built in the last century . |
| 6 | Despite excellent character-witnesses , among them Elizabeth , who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid 's behalf , Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence : a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings — a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder . |
| 7 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 8 | ‘ All the attention Shane has been receiving from the media is very flattering , but it 's getting a bit out of control with phone calls at 5.00am , ’ said coach Bob Simpson . |
| 9 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 10 | The crisis Branson had been expecting broke in October , when British Airways dropped the price of their cheapest return ticket on the London-New York route from £278 to £259 — only £1 more than Virgin — and began selling tickets ‘ subject to government confirmation ’ . |
| 11 | Graham Hunsley , defending , told the court Melia had been roaming round the country for about a month and stole the jeans after becoming concerned about his scruffy appearance . |
| 12 | It was absolutely delicious and a welcome change from the meat Marcus had been giving me lately . |
| 13 | It estimates ACAS could accelerate the schedule COSE 's been kicking around by a year . |
| 14 | It estimates that ACAS could accelerate the schedule COSE 's been kicking around by about a year . |
| 15 | After the failure of the 1754 conference Braddock had been appointed to the newly-created post of commander-in-chief in America , and he rapidly put together a force which marched north-west through the area Washington had been surveying towards Fort Duquesne , just to the south of Lake Erie . |
| 16 | Ever since they had started the journey Christopher had been chewing barley sugar . |
| 17 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 18 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 19 | In the meantime Edward had been thinking too . |
| 20 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 21 | A baby — and the designer Edouard had been searching for so long . |
| 22 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 23 | All the time Ward had been talking to the receptionist his head had been half turned to the street doors , which were wide open , framing an incessant movement of people in an iridescent haze of hot sunlight . |
| 24 | At the time Patten had been sitting in his Smith Square office , gently smoothing the bags beneath his eyes . |
| 25 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |