Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 3 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 4 | Merson does n't hide the fact that he has been struggling with his weight . |
| 5 | A paperboy has been telling of his ordeal at the hands of a gunman . |
| 6 | Hunter has been training with his team-mates but on match nights has had to go it alone . |
| 7 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 8 | The company was a victim of the mania for leveraged buyouts of the late 1980s and has been staggering under its burden of debt . |
| 9 | He has been plotting since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 10 | Ron Roddan has been coaching at his club , Thames Valley Harriers , for twenty-nine years , first at the Alperton track in north-west London and later at the West London Stadium . |
| 11 | One of the former pupils , who 's now nineteen , has been speaking about his ordeal . |
| 12 | A patient who claimed he almost died after a doctor failed to diagnose his heart attack , has been speaking about his battle against medical red-tape . |
| 13 | ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’ |
| 14 | A man charged with the manslaughter of twin sisters in a barn fire has been speaking of his ’ sheer panic ’ when the fire broke out . |
| 15 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 16 | Catherine Everett has been hearing about it . |
| 17 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ This has been hanging over us for too long . |
| 19 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 20 | Petula has been living at her London home this year while Claude has stayed in Geneva . |
| 21 | She has been living with her friend Jane Eager at Scira Court , Wylam Avenue , Darlington , since October and applied to the council as a homeless person last month . |
| 22 | So far , an answer on that has been lacking from him and other Ministers . |
| 23 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 24 | They 're opening the gates of the Manor Ground for the first time this season tomorrow … new signing Anton Rogan has been trying on his shirt today … |
| 25 | But anxiety has been flickering across their faces since they heard about Northern Ireland 's triumph in Albania . |
| 26 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 27 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 28 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 29 | Maria Harris has been staying with her parents at Wood Farm since returning to Britain just days before Saddam Hussein 's forces marched in , exactly two months ago . |
| 30 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $100 introductory price on the stuff . |