Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately after his promotion , the archbishops of Compostella and Braga came personally into his presence in a case which had been going on between them concerning seven bishoprics . |
| 2 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 3 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 4 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 6 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 7 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 8 | If any of the rest of us realized we 'd improved a story we 'd been telling , we 'd just keep quiet about it . ’ |
| 9 | And in a way er and this is a story I think is gon na develop over the next six months or a year . |
| 10 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 11 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 12 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 13 | Ever since it was revealed that Grant has a boat I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us . |
| 14 | I think I needed a break I have been pushing really hard and was more tired than I was prepared to admit , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |
| 16 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 17 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 18 | A MOTORCYCLIST who had been drinking and was doing 122mph when stopped by police on the M9 near Linlithgow , was fined £350 and banned from driving for three years at Linlithgow Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 19 | So far , there 've been more a dozen such incidents across the region , but a psychologist who 's been studying them is warning that they 'll be difficult to stop . |
| 20 | Durance said to Rain : ‘ I ca n't believe Joseph does n't understand that selling under her name a painting recognizable as a Durance is equivalent to telling a journalist she had been painting my pictures . |
| 21 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 22 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 23 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 24 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |
| 25 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 26 | I had a question I had been intending to ask him . |
| 27 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 28 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 29 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 30 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |