Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last five years Volkov has been drinking himself to death . |
| 2 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 3 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 4 | Up to this point the US had been binding itself to Vietnam with conceptual associations , policy objectives , and some material considerations . |
| 5 | around or over the world in 30 days of driving … that 's the dream of two local motoring enthusiasts who are taking their old morgan car on the longest … the toughest rally of them all … they 've been getting themselves into gear in the Malverns and we 're off there to join them for our Friday feature |
| 6 | wages cos we 've been giving ourselves under wages over the last |
| 7 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 8 | She 's been fretting herself to flinders , in case you should 've changed your mind . ’ |