Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 2 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 3 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 4 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 5 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 6 | At least , where Masklin had been sitting . |
| 7 | They were in the kitchen , where Hannele had been drinking milk when he returned . |
| 8 | Incumbent Saatchi & Saatchi has been using a 90-second ad with the key line ‘ For him , for her , forever … |
| 9 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 10 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 11 | Bernice decided that Ell had been watching too many films . |
| 12 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 13 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 14 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |
| 15 | She wondered what Spiderglass would do to Chesarynth when they found out that Jezrael had been trying to free her . |
| 16 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 17 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 18 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 19 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 20 | Any unease that Lucy had been feeling now vanished in the face of Charlie 's uncharacteristic embarrassment . |
| 21 | ‘ I admit that Toby has been stirring things up in his newspaper . |
| 22 | interest tax relief , it 's M I D A S right , so let's not start talking about the benefit of public sector housing and to show the financial illiteracy of of of what 's actually been proposed if you understand the government regulation about the ring fencing o of of of the housing revenue account and and the way in which housing benefit is now having to be subsidised by those other council house tenants then what 's actually going to happen when your poor people inhabit those houses , those public sector houses and they need the housing benefit that David 's been talking about . |
| 23 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 24 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 25 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 26 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 27 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 28 | Following his death reports emerged that Falcone had been working closely with Judge Antonio di Pietro on the investigations into corruption in Milan 's local government [ see below ] . |
| 29 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 30 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |