Example sentences of "who [verb] been [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And who has been filling you with canards about Honoria Greville ? |
| 2 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 3 | The record 's jazz stylings have already attracted the attention of DJ Gilles Peterson at London 's Jazz FM , who has been playing it on tape for some time . |
| 4 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 5 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 6 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 7 | A round the world yachtsman has been telling tales of the sea to a group of schoolchildren who 've been supporting him on his latest adventure . |
| 8 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 9 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 10 | And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years . |
| 11 | At the end of the recording , the woman who had been showering him with questions observed the following : ‘ I have never done such a difficult interview . |
| 12 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 13 | Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her . |
| 14 | ‘ It was Bernard , who had been watching me from his office and asked me if I had ever thought of a career in modelling . ’ |
| 15 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 16 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |
| 17 | The vendor of these two pictures had previously consigned them to Thomas Gibson who had been offering them at considerably higher prices . |
| 18 | Some fell down , forgotten by those who had been keeping them on their feet . |
| 19 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 20 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 21 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 22 | It is indeed actually the paradox that Fred Hoyle has just rediscovered erm which is for those of us who have been teaching it to our undergraduates for thirty years . |
| 23 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 24 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
| 25 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 26 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 27 | And he 's another one who 's been admiring you from afar . ’ |
| 28 | Who 's been beating you about the head ? ’ |