Example sentences of "who has [be] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
2 | ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years . |
3 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
4 | ‘ I know someone who has been put off three times for an appointment in ophthalmology . ’ |
5 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
6 | This refreshing wine is made by Piat Père et Fils who has been established since 1849 and also produces outstanding Beaujolais and Burgundy wines . |
7 | For example , the monarch was not spared by the pseudonymous critic Junius , who has been described by one historian as ‘ perhaps the ablest and most devastating political commentator ’ that England has ever produced ( Plumb , 1966 : 118 ) . |
8 | One of the rebels , vice-chairman Ronnie Teese , 56 , who has been banned for 12 months , said the club was ‘ terrified of the can of worms they might find ’ . |
9 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |