Example sentences of "two [noun] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 2 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 3 | For the last two months he has been attending Queen 's Park with his wife Christine and three children . ) |
| 4 | The two guards who had been holding him released him and stood back . |
| 5 | Thus , this survey combined the two methods we have been looking at above . |
| 6 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 7 | They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is . |
| 8 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 9 | For two years we have been refocussing the organisation of the profession and defining our key objectives . |
| 10 | The last two years it 's been falling apart so we have to ke kept kept folding the wheels back on |
| 11 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 12 | over two years she 's been doing it . |
| 13 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 14 | She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication . |
| 15 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 16 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 17 | For the past two days he had been saying so to all who would listen . |
| 18 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 19 | But thinking about Guido and the race were two things she 'd been trying very hard not to do . |
| 20 | Two figures who had been walking ahead of them , suddenly turned and came sauntering back . |
| 21 | Figure 3.1 shows the joint variation of the two properties we have been talking about , and , of course , the possible values which any unit can take . |
| 22 | For a long moment their glances clashed like swords , then there was a shout behind her , and she turned to see the two men he 'd been talking to and a short stout woman in a dark overall running towards them . |
| 23 | Slowly , like a black storm cloud that builds up ominously on a distant horizon , the second of the two Men who had been feeding the eagles advanced on Woil . |
| 24 | As they entered the little hall , two detectives who had been playing cards swept their cards off the table like schoolboys caught in the act . |
| 25 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 26 | In the preceding two chapters we have been developing ways in which questions of locale and locality can be systematically introduced into social theory . |
| 27 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
| 28 | Films such as Citron 's Daughter Rite adopted a format borrowed from the personal testimony ( the diary , the autobiographical voice ) but exposed the illusory nature of ‘ unmediated ’ film-making by revealing in the credits that the two women who had been reminiscing in the film were in fact actresses playing sisters . |
| 29 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 30 | 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 . |