Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 2 | Dozens of street musicians have been gathering in Cheltenham as part of the fringe festival . |
| 3 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 4 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 5 | Their analysis may not go any deeper than that , but it is expressed in a way which impresses Letterman , a sort of passionate commitment to the power of the idea which he has — subversively — been advocating in Hollywood for years . |
| 6 | Former drug addict Jamie , who served a prison term for driving offences , has been living in London with girlfriend Arabella Tait since the split with his wife . |
| 7 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |
| 8 | In other words , what would appear to be required is some awareness on the part of the defendant that he was making the task of the police a more difficult one , and this element may have been lacking in Willmott v. Atack , which would explain why the appeal was allowed . |
| 9 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 10 | Fishing is let each year to the same people , many of whom have been coming to Brora for decades . |
| 11 | ADVENTURE-seeking Britons have been flocking to Israel for years to sample communal living on a kibbutz . |
| 12 | Americans and Japanese have been collecting in Antarctica for years . |
| 13 | He had been playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , Middlesex , when he was injured . |
| 14 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 15 | According to the latest tittle-tattle , Sparc licensees Fujitsu and LSI Logic ( who is into MIPS as well ) have been talking to DEC about Alpha . |
| 16 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 17 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
| 18 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |
| 19 | USL has been working with SunSelect on Wabi and is responsible for developing the Windows shell , Wabi control panel , help subsystem , dynamic link libraries that support dynamic data exchange and common dialogue , and ISO Latin internationalisation . |
| 20 | Unix Labs has been working with SunSelect on Wabi and is responsible for developing the Windows shell , Wabi control panel , help subsystem , dynamic link libraries that support dynamic data exchange and common dialogue , and ISO Latin internationalisation . |
| 21 | John Hall , a senior operations engineer from Hunterston , has been working in Bulgaria since August of last year as part of the WANO ‘ good-housekeeping ’ team . |