Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A curd which has been soaking in its own whey makes an acid cheese ( which explains the often sharp taste of Eastern Mediterranean white cheeses which are sometimes stored in whey ) . |
| 2 | A little company in Golden , Colorado has been working on its own version of Unix for the last year and half , this one called Usix . |
| 3 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 4 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |
| 5 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 6 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 7 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 8 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 9 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 10 | Morant , Chambers and others were aware that for ten years or more several LEAs including Sheffield , Nottingham , Wigan , Liverpool , Carlisle , Finchley , Bolton , Cambridge , and Edinburgh had been experimenting with their own employment schemes . |
| 11 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 12 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 13 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 14 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 15 | ‘ These people had been fighting against their own country , against Marshal Tito who had been recognised as an ally by the British Government , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 16 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 17 | Well , that 's all very well but there is one other I would like to add to the list and put it near the top — Downpatrick , who have been battling on their own for years , and who still manage to attract huge crowds as they showed last Monday . |