Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun prp] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 2 | The largest gathering of American cars outside the United States has been assembling in the region . |
| 3 | Gloppo finds the Trans Am has been screwing the car-wash — " |
| 4 | Erika remembered the Watchword Omi had been reading on the day when Karl had come . |
| 5 | The Walther Devlin had been holding on his knee appeared above the table now and he fired again , shooting Eggar through the right hand . |
| 6 | Two fur traders from the French settlement of New France on the banks of the St. Lawrence had been trying to convince their employers that the best way to develop the trade was to set up bases on Hudson Bay to which the Indians could come in their canoes down all the rivers that flowed into the Bay . |
| 7 | See , the very place where the mighty throng and the Empress Judith Had been standing , and with them the boy Charles himself ! |