Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 2 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 3 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 4 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 5 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 6 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 7 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 8 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 9 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 11 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 12 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 13 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 14 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 15 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 16 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 17 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 18 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 19 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 20 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 21 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 22 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 23 | No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then . |
| 24 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 25 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 26 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 27 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 28 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 29 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 30 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |