Example sentences of "who have be [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lamy , who has been seeking a drive in Formula One for this year 's Portuguese Grand Prix at Estroil next month , tested for Lotus at Silverstone last week . |
| 2 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 3 | Having ensured that a sterile first half ended goalless by making a tremendous reaction save to thwart Olney , Grobbelaar , who has been walking a selection tightrope all season , then allowed a far from ferocious low shot by Daley at the end of a thrilling 50-yard burst to slip under him and into the net . |
| 4 | The long term waiting list is also down to five thousand four hundred , that 's the number of people who 've been waiting a year or more , a third of them for plastic surgery . |
| 5 | But it 's the sorta thing I 'd expect to hear from older people who 've been fighting a fight and are n't interested in anything I 'm doing . |
| 6 | Couples who 've been planning a baby often feel this relief and excitement . |
| 7 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
| 8 | Sir Robin Day , who had been taking a nap on a sofa in the BBC room in the balcony , was hurriedly awakened . |
| 9 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |
| 10 | Builder Dave Young , wife Jane and son Paul , three — who had been taking a dip in the hotel pool — were left with just the costumes they had on . |
| 11 | She frequently made use of Coptic craftsmen and one of them , a leather-worker , who had been repairing a handbag she was particularly fond of , was bringing it to her flat with his small son when he was attacked by a gang of youths . |
| 12 | SIX United Nations military hostages , including three Britons , were freed unconditionally yesterday by Cambodia 's Khmer Rouge , who had been demanding a UN pullout . |
| 13 | John Ransome , who had been expecting a first-round tie against Mark Maclean , gratefully accepted the benefit of the Scottish No 1 's withdrawal by ousting fellow Englishman Paul Johnson . |
| 14 | John Ransome , who had been expecting a first-round tie against Mark Maclean , gratefully accepted the benefit of the Scottish No 1 's withdrawal by ousting fellow Englishman Paul Johnson . |
| 15 | We studied 20 children with coeliac disease who had been following a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |
| 16 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 17 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 18 | Altogether there were forty of us , all from Fontanellato apart from a shipowner from Genoa who had been spending a holiday in his house in the country . |
| 19 | In fact it has been mainly the lesbians in the girls ' work movement who have been developing a determination to make the links between all oppressions , and who have become very clear about the need for that work to be accessible to all young women . |
| 20 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 21 | And me who 's been firing a gun from when I was practically able to walk . |