Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most fearsome figures on television has been entertaining an army of his young fans here in the region . |
| 2 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 3 | Kate has been overseeing an AIDS education course in Constanta together with a local representative , Ana Ureche . |
| 4 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 5 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 6 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 7 | The stock market has been expecting an announcement all week . |
| 8 | Ever since September 1988 , Mr Li 's government has been pressing an austerity programme to cool the economy . |
| 9 | Immediately preceding this extracted fragment , the narrator has been describing an incident relevant to the main story . |
| 10 | The show ( from 3 December until 2 January ) is accompanied by a colour catalogue with an essay by Dan Cameron , a New York critic who has been keeping an eagle eye on the Spanish scene for some years . |
| 11 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 12 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 13 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 14 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 15 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 16 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 17 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 18 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 19 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 20 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 21 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 22 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 23 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 24 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |
| 25 | London police chiefs are understood , however , already to have been planning an initiative early next year which would lower height requirements . |
| 26 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 27 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 28 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the education minister , had been considering an appeal for support but turned down the college in December . |
| 29 | For some time , Coutts had been considering an application from Virgin to increase their overdraft facility above the previously agreed limit of £4m . |
| 30 | The importance of being able to reciprocate gifts in kind is also illustrated by case study data from Pahl 's study on household work strategies on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent , in which one man who was long-term unemployed had been helping an uncle to decorate his house , and how the uncle then gave him a large piece of meat . |