Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a speech that blended music-hall style with soap-box rhetoric , the veteran left wing MP for Bolsover , said : ‘ For too long the Labour Party has been trying to follow in the wake of Mrs Thatcher 's agenda . |
| 2 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 3 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 4 | Simpkin , the inventor of a new set of kicking tees used by his players in Catania , has been waiting to hear from the International Board on his amateur status , allegedly jeopardised by his involvement in a professional capacity with the Hong Kong Union . |
| 5 | I really think he should have been going to try on a left footed shot from there . |
| 6 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 7 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 8 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 9 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 10 | While she had been speaking , the dogs had been struggling to get through the narrow crack of open door . |
| 11 | The blackleg buses disappeared off the streets and other vehicles which had been beginning to return to the roads . |
| 12 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 13 | I mean it seems a bit ironic in that how that what the Communist Party had been striving to eliminate for the past twenty years , they 're now going back to recreating differences in society , but the most fundamental change is that how feudalism has gone . |
| 14 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 15 | Alice 's mother-in-law thought she was going to have an afternoon 's shopping , it was what she liked doing herself , and she believed , without any evidence for this , that Alice had been longing to get to the shops on her own . |
| 16 | Following this direct action , BP Coal flew in its executives to meet LAG , a meeting that LAG had been attempting to organize for a year and a half . |
| 17 | Presidents Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Daniel arap Moi of Kenya , who had been attempting to mediate between the government and the anti-government movement the Mozambique National Resistance ( Resistência Nacional Moçambicana — MNR or Renamo ) , met in Nairobi , the Kenyan capital , on Sept. 20 , 1989 , to review the previous month 's discussions between church leaders and the MNR [ see p. 36841 ] . |
| 18 | Mr Barritt had been planning to retire from the executive of Bryson House , formerly known as Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society , next week after 30 years ' service . |
| 19 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |
| 20 | He recoiled , but the iciness in the breeze freshened his skin and helped to dispel the lethargy he had been feeling sitting in the car . |
| 21 | Stella , who for a miserable quarter of an hour had been contemplating going to the ladies ' room and not coming back , was suddenly struck by the curiously fragmented nature of the group about the table . |
| 22 | I 've been trying to liaise with the Save our Forests which is and forestry privatization and technically I 'm on the committee . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 24 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 25 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 26 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 28 | The trouble is , I 've been longing to go to the loo for the past hour , and I do n't know how long he 's going to be ! |
| 29 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 30 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |