Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since her two daughters have left home she has been researching 18th Century records preparatory to writing biographies of some political reformers . |
| 2 | Must have been raining last night . |
| 3 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 4 | You 'd have been smouldering next morning , would n't she Charlie ? |
| 5 | I 've been administering first aid . ’ |
| 6 | A number of state stations have been opening second channels , some in stereo , yet many state governments are not content merely to expand radio . |