Example sentences of "who have been [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |
| 2 | The government , in an effort to tighten the grip on Gen Aoun , dismissed Lebanon 's ambassador to the US , Mr Abdallah Bouhabib , who has been supporting the general 's policies for more than 15 months . |
| 3 | However , Dunlop who has been setting the pace in the championship for most of the season and was successful at Tandragee , is the man they all have to beat . |
| 4 | But one of the councillors who has been revierwing the county 's homes has defended the move : |
| 5 | As for painting , John Good this month shows Jacqueline Humphries , who has been exploring the notion of the ‘ arrested gesture ’ in relation to both the drip and the grid , from 2 May until 20 June . |
| 6 | Albert Setzer of the INPE , the Brazilian space-research centre , who has been monitoring the forest fires for several years , says the fires cause a concentration of potentially-dangerous particles many times higher than the levels recommended by the World Health Organisation . |
| 7 | Detective Inspector Jim McEwan , who has been studying the case files for a year , confirmed that he and another senior detective , Chief Inspector Ricky Gray , had travelled to England as a result of the information to interview a man who they believed could help them with the inquiry . |
| 8 | Detective Inspector Jim McEwan , who has been studying the case files for a year , confirmed that he and Chief Inspector Ricky Gray had gone to England as a result of the information to interview a man who they believed could help them with the inquiry . |
| 9 | Andrew Lyne , who has been studying the millisecond pulsar from Jodrell Bank , told New Scientist ‘ What will be interesting is to compare the arrival times of the optical pulses with the radio ’ . |
| 10 | Stephen Roche , who has been spending the season preparing for the two big tours of Italy and France , seems to have got it right . |
| 11 | Two weeks later comes the West End début of an actress who has been brightening the fringe and television sets for several years now : 26-year old Serena Gordon . |
| 12 | but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it |
| 13 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
| 14 | The outgoing person who has been doing the job should be consulted as part of this , although it should be borne in mind that he or she may have certain prejudices which preclude their giving a totally satisfactory answer . |
| 15 | ‘ Sometimes at the end of the day I am drained , ’ said Ann , who has been doing the job at Courtaulds Packaging company in Colchester , UK , for 10 years . |
| 16 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 17 | Beeson , who has been showing the strain of captaincy , secured his third carefully crafted win by beating the Dutch No. 1 Hans Frieling 9-2 , 9-5 , 7-9 , 9-1 . |
| 18 | They had a warrant to arrest her grandson who 'd been visiting the pensioner at her sheltered accommodation in Cheltenham . |
| 19 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 20 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 21 | She knew the rebel baron who had been ravaging the countryside , the man whose name Ralf had been unable to recall . |
| 22 | She was on the point of abandoning the plan when a neighbour , a solicitor who had been advising the magazine , explained that Neville and company were respectable young men really , from decent backgrounds — after all , his father had been a colonel in the Australian Army . |
| 23 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 24 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 25 | ‘ And presumably , ’ said Julia , who had been reading the backlog of newspapers that had accumulated during her illness , ‘ the appalling winter will have done for this year 's as well . ’ |
| 26 | The car rolled over on to its back with a grinding crash , exposing beneath it the bloodied meat of the two policemen who had been supervising the cordon . |
| 27 | Harriet , who had been watching the meter , pulled a note out of her bag and passed it to the driver . |
| 28 | An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight . |
| 29 | When the film is complete and the company has pulled out , he stays behind and watches with awe as the local Peruvian Indians — who had been watching the film being made — begin to re-enact it . |
| 30 | Whitlock , who had been watching the entrance from the comfort of an armchair for the past ten minutes , got to his feet and shook her extended hand . |