Example sentences of "[noun] been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) She had for the previous 24 hours been receiving narcotic drugs and antibiotics and was in a state in which it was necessary to give her oxygen . |
| 2 | The force was regarded as a necessary guarantee to deter incursions by the Iraqi army into the zone of northern Iraq where coalition troops had from April until July been providing protection for Iraqi Kurds [ see pp. 38127-28 ; 38211 ; 38308 ] . |
| 3 | " Why , as a matter of interest , " said Martin , calmly , as though the discussion up to this point had been quite unreliable , " did you have so many children , Candida ? " and Mrs Denham , strangely , took off her glasses , and frowned , and began to speak as though she had indeed up to this point been talking nonsense . |
| 4 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |
| 5 | As it happened , I had that same morning been giving thought to the dilemma of whether or not I was expected to reciprocate my employer 's bantering , and had been seriously worried at how he might be viewing my repeated failure to respond to such openings . |
| 6 | How long have people been making pastry for ? |
| 7 | How long have people been making pastry ? |
| 8 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |
| 9 | Although it has yet to displace the older established metal in western sentiment , court jewellers have for some time been using platinum as a more appropriate setting for diamonds than gold . |