Example sentences of "who have be [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One of the people who has been developing an information-processing model intended to describe how production of spoken sentences is achieved is Garrett ( 1975 , 1980 , 1982 ) .
2 Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered .
3 All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade .
4 Legal moves have begun to evict thousands of travellers who 've been holding an illegal festival at a beauty spot for the past five days .
5 At this point the young man , who had been reading a folded newspaper , looked up and said in a slightly truculent voice , ‘ Excuse me , madam , but that 's my pudding you 're about to eat . ’
6 Meanwhile the warden 's cat , who had been enjoying a light snack in the dustbin , saw Emily , saw the milk , and that is all I can remember , it happened so quickly .
7 For this search I teamed up with two young friends , both experienced detector users , who had been searching a nearby farm and thus knew the area well .
8 Henri reached the cave mouth first , shortly followed by Mait , Carrefour , and finally Richmann , who had been keeping a rear guard .
9 Susan , who had been working a local boarding kennel where she was particularly involved with Bernese Mountain and German Shepherd dogs , has two Great Danes of her own called Buddy and Holly !
10 It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on .
11 ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ?
12 The water is intended to wash away the contamination of sacredness of persons who have been acting a priestly role .
13 The French manufacturers Arva , who have been making an interesting alternative range of transceivers for some years , have now developed a system of amplifying the radio signal so that a ski patroller in a helicopter can home in on a buried skier .
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