Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 3 | Ever since Maastricht the Tories have been wringing their hands over how best to restore their ‘ caring ’ image among the feminists they enraged by opting out of Europe 's Social Chapter . |
| 4 | THE FRENCH have been shifting their money from the stock market into Paris property , according to Donnelle Higbee , who runs Hampton 's Paris office . |
| 5 | A farmer and his wife have been teaching their son at home for over two years because they do n't want him to go to a special school . |
| 6 | Having won a libel case against British Airways over the much publicized dirty tricks , it 's set to announce losses exceeding fourteen million pounds for nineteen ninety two , and all airlines have been tightening their belts in the recession . |
| 7 | Apple , in particular , have been building their repertoire of authoring tools ever since they launched their quintessential multimedia platform , the Macintosh . |
| 8 | Since the ban , it appears farmers have been selling their milk to pig farmers , so the problem may simply shift from milk to pork . |
| 9 | And this will assist the fragmentation around the imagined absoluteness of ethnic differences upon which both the New Right and the ‘ cultural nationalists ’ from the ethnic minorities have been premising their demands for cultural separatism in education ( cf. |
| 10 | Some of the toughest and fittest servicemen from across Europe have been testing their skills against each other . |
| 11 | Celebrities also have been voicing their opinions of the end to the ‘ fairytale romance ’ . |
| 12 | By public demand their split became merely a brief sabbatical , and since being reunited the Blues Band have been playing their cocktail of traditional blues and original material around the globe . |
| 13 | British airmen have been describing their experiences during forty days of relief missions to Somalia . |
| 14 | The two sides in the battle over admitting men to an Oxford women 's college have been putting their case to University Chancellor , Lord Jenkins . |
| 15 | Hundreds of classic car owners have been putting their vehicles to the test on the race track . |
| 16 | Throughout the week the pupils of the council 's art class in Ballyclare High School and their tutor , Di Whitla , have been exhibiting their work in the Town Hall . |
| 17 | : Fa Some of the country 's leading film starts have been adding their weight to a campaign to keep open an Oxfordshire cinema . |
| 18 | And finally , surfers and canoeists have been pitting their skills against the biggest River Severn tidal wave of the year . |
| 19 | Dog owners from all over the country have been showing their appreciation for what they claim is the most royal of breeds . |
| 20 | It is concealed down a narrow alley linking Hatton Garden with Ely Court but patrons have been finding their way to it since the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 22 | Writers and actors have been pledging their support at the start of National Library Week . |
| 23 | CHARLES DARWIN opened a can of worms which have been crawling their way up the evolutionary ladder of history ever since . |
| 24 | The thieves have been forcing their way into the homes of elderly people , holding them down while searching for their savings . |
| 25 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |
| 26 | During June and July many artists living and working in East and South East London have been opening their studios to the public , coordinated and publicised by the Whitechapel Gallery . |
| 27 | It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation . |
| 28 | People have been burying their excrement in pits for thousands of years . |