Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P.P.S I see they 've been feeding Mark H on the raw meat again : - ) ) ) How did ‘ Antiscum United ’ go on over the weekend by the way ? ? |
| 2 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 3 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ We hear you 've been selling Victor carthorses . |
| 5 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 6 | It falls to stifle creative enterprise , with the result that all that remain are dying echoes |
| 7 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 8 | Japan has been hunting minke whales in the Antarctic for " research " purposes . |
| 9 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |
| 10 | The final insult has been moving Coronation Street forward half an hour to show European Cup games . |
| 11 | The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them . |
| 12 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 13 | Since 1946 the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) has been promoting literacy ‘ both as a human right and as an instrument of liberation and development ’ . |
| 14 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 15 | The commission has been collecting evidence about the torture and ‘ disappearance ’ of the military regime 's political opponents , from victims and their families and from the armed forces . |
| 16 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |
| 17 | Of what has been collecting centuries |
| 18 | The General Household Survey has been collecting data on out-patient use , though not publishing them . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's quite amazing what turns up when one is least expecting it , ’ says Laurie Milner of the Imperial War Museum , who has been collecting material here . |
| 20 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 21 | Ramsay Jameel who saw the camps at first hand , has been telling Robin Powell that refugees are putting up with appalling circumstances . |
| 22 | Chairman of the Oxfordshire branch of the Council , Julian Blackwell has been telling Robin Powell that he 's delighted . |
| 23 | In any case , as General Manager , Denis Baston has been telling Robin Powell , such major changes require careful consideration . |
| 24 | Harry Scott ( 81 ) , from Jordanstown has been telling stories all his life . |
| 25 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , one of the candidates for John Akers ' job , has been telling IBM Corp 's directors what he reckons should be done to rescue the company — and it ai n't pretty : according to the Wall Street Journal , he is outlining something very like what we suggested , hiring top people in the appropriate industry segment — Andrew Groves , Michael Dell , Alan Shugart , Scott McNealy , people of that ilk , to run each of the new business units , and if they wo n't come on board , he says , IBM should sell them respectively the chip , personal computer , disk drive and workstation lines of business . |
| 26 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 27 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchet man Steve Ballmer has been telling people that Windows NT will be available in May : meanwhile object-oriented Cairo is now apparently being referred to as NT Version 2 . |
| 28 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchetman Steve Ballmer has been telling people Windows NT will be available in May . |
| 29 | Our Washington correspondent Nick Peters has been telling Richard Dalling about the likely issues up for discussion . |
| 30 | 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 . |