Example sentences of "who have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race .
2 ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years .
3 Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland .
4 POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months .
5 Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn .
6 At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey .
7 The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years .
8 Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen .
9 A woman accomplice , who had been hiding in one of the cubicles , came out and the two ran off , leaving the victim sprawled on the floor , said Acting Insp Smart .
10 A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit .
11 A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found .
12 They were identified as those of Ruth Fuerst , an Austrian nurse , who had been missing since 1943 ; Muriel Eady , who had been one of Christie 's colleagues at work in 1944 ; Christie 's wife ; and three prostitutes .
13 I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction .
14 Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years .
15 POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days .
16 I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America .
17 Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days .
18 Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days .
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