Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 2 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 3 | The SDIO has been concentrating on limited ground-based systems . |
| 4 | Olivia Ensor ( Mrs Coolidge ) has been exhibiting in various local art exhibitions . |
| 5 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 6 | The vessel Yeremi had been riding in scant tens of seconds earlier erupted , disintegrated . |
| 7 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 8 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 9 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 10 | Henderson had been working for British secret services for 20 years , it was revealed last night . |
| 11 | A brain scan showed extensive bleeding around the brain , and the specialists concluded that Guy had been suffering from internal bleeding since his accident on the previous day . |
| 12 | An autopsy revealed that the pilot had been suffering from severe coronary artery disease . |
| 13 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 14 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |