Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 2 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 3 | Sharon Turnbull has been training in articles with Newcastle City Council for nearly a year . |
| 4 | They fear that its place at the cutting edge of environmental radicalism has been taking by groups such as Earth First . |
| 5 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 6 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 7 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 8 | He therefore has been living with friends , sleeping on their floors , for the last few weeks , because he 's complied explicitly with the conditions of his bail . |
| 9 | The Halifax , which has been experimenting with auctions for several months , had no fewer than 82 repossessed houses and flats in the sale . |
| 10 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
| 11 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
| 12 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 13 | The American versus British female stereotype is a trans-Atlantic difference of opinion that has been raging for decades . |
| 14 | The rest of the time at sittings , Tom has been dealing with relatives who have ‘ passed over ’ , including his mother , who died in 1987 , and his father , who had five brothers . |
| 15 | has been stalking through millennia intent |
| 16 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 17 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 18 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 19 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 20 | The Grosvenor Gallery , Eric Estorick 's famous gallery which , in recent years , has been operating from offices in South Moulton Street , has moved to the spacious premises vacated by the Albemarle Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 21 | The Bishop , the Right Reverend Peter Ball , has been resting on orders of the Archbishop of Canterbury , since being questioned by police before Christmas . |
| 22 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 23 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 24 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 25 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 26 | Our share of world trade has been falling for years under successive governments to the extent that the purchasing power of our currency has roughly halved since 1945 . |
| 27 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 28 | There has been a marked increase in the number of women working in isolated areas and the G M B has been campaigning for improvements in safety on public transport , a campaign which must continue . |
| 29 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |
| 30 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |