Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 2 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 3 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 4 | Wilkinson said : ‘ Grimsby have been playing with five at the back and gave Ipswich a tough last match . |
| 5 | Do you realise that those four or five women from the RVH have been fighting since 1984 for some sort of fairness and equality in their pay ? |
| 6 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 7 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 8 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 9 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |