Example sentences of "who have been [v-ing] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 2 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 3 | Mention earlier of the out-and-out-all-round entertainer , Mr Donovan leads me to Miss Kylene Minogue , the law of diminishing returns , who has been turning her thoughts to matters matrimonial . |
| 4 | The chateau of Pau was the birthplace of King Henry IV of France , who has been edging his way into my text all along . |
| 5 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 6 | A court has heard how a father gunned down a drugs dealer who 'd been supplying his sons with cannabis . |
| 7 | I bus-hopped back to Hackney , feeling a bit of a prune sitting there in my suit in between a gaggle of wrinklies who 'd been blowing their pensions down the supermarket . |
| 8 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 9 | The diehard Smiths fans who 've been turning their backs on Morrissey over the last couple of years would be wise to give this a spin and do jerky , twisty , dancing type things in their front room . ’ |
| 10 | Naturally , not everyone is going to be as enthusiastic about the relaunch as we are ( those who 've been rubbing their hands together in anticipation of issue 100 , for example ) . |
| 11 | Tilda , who had been holding her breath , let it go . |
| 12 | ‘ And pears , ’ interjected Gwendolen , who had been reading her guide books . |
| 13 | Grandad , who had been reading his paper , said , ‘ Eh , I 'd like to help with the cleaning but you see I promised Angus up at the farm that I 'd help him with the lambs today . ’ |
| 14 | Fribble , who had been eating his supper with industrious pleasure , said , ‘ I never heard that story until lately , you know . |
| 15 | Félix , who had been watching her face intently , now touched her cheek tenderly with his fingertips . |
| 16 | Those who had been watching him work believed that in spite of the traumas , Hopper the actor was a star , and Hopper the director had completed an extraordinarily good film which , according to one description , included some ‘ hauntingly beautiful footage ’ . |
| 17 | Peter Yeo , who had been watching his partners , realized that he and Tim were not carrying the other two and decided to make another effort . |
| 18 | A : After appearing on TV , I was contacted by Terry Moseley who had been following my story since Kelly was killed , and Jeanette Thompson , whose child had been attacked by her own dog . |
| 19 | It was the height of the nightclub era and naturally the owners were eager for the presence of the attractive dancers who had been delighting their members earlier in the evening . |
| 20 | She glared up at the man who had been invading her dreams , for a second not even sure if she was awake or asleep . |
| 21 | The first body , found in the Thames , was discovered accidentally by a bargee , who had been poling his way up the river and had been more than mildly surprised when he had brought his pole up from the river bed to find a sodden brown parcel on the end with a baby 's arm sticking out . |
| 22 | And then Caspar , who had been narrowing his eyes and taking stock of everything and everyone , suddenly gripped Fenella 's arm and said , in a voice from which most of the breath had been driven , ‘ Fenella — over there . ’ |
| 23 | Miliutin , architect of the St Petersburg municipal reform of 1846 , was head of the Economic Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and potentially the most influential of the " enlightened bureaucrats " who had been consolidating their links with each other since the end of the 1830s . |
| 24 | They have built up a list of people all over the world who have been sending them football songs and now send Beatles covers as well . |
| 25 | In my own case , it is the knowledge that a Labour victory has the effect of a firework in a stagnant pool , in that it brings all the scum to the surface : not just the trade union ruffians , who have been biding their time , but the Left-wing teachers , the child abuse and anti-smoking fanatics , the Hunt Saboteurs , all the ugly underside of British life will suddenly have a powerful voice in the nation 's councils . |
| 26 | The Irish in Britain Representation Group led a march from Whittington Park calling for the release of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 , who have been protesting their innocence for the past 14 years . |
| 27 | Those of you who have been fingering your calculator buttons anxiously can now relax : the excursion into philosophy is over , and we return to the nuts and bolts of describing patterns in batches of numbers . |
| 28 | Congress , this composite is about a deceit , a deceit by the Tory government , of men and women , over their working lives women in particular who have been contributing their stamp all their working lives and are now being told that there is a danger that they will not get their state pensions at sixty . |
| 29 | It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation . |
| 30 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |