Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 2 | This awareness of risks and subsequent action to lessen them has been labelled risk compensation ( e.g. O'Neill , 1977 ) . |
| 3 | Beforehand , her PR people urge me not to ask her about Eric Clapton ( with whom she has been seen dining on at least one occasion at San Lorenzo 's in London ) , but that she would be willing to talk about her alcoholism . |
| 4 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 5 | ‘ She has been taking medication but we do n't know yet whether that had anything to do with it . |
| 6 | ‘ She has been seeing James recently but she still loves Marco , ’ said Mrs Butcher . |
| 7 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 8 | She has been sculpting flowers , birds and animals for about 12 years . |
| 9 | In the new system , after a registered kidney donor has died , the hospital to which he or she has been taken contacts the nearest computer centre . |
| 10 | One might almost think , says Robert — our Robert , must I call him ? — that she has been directing affairs herself ! |
| 11 | HE has been called spiv , ticket tout , sport 's shadiest wheeler-dealer and sometimes a lot worse . |
| 12 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 13 | Recently he has been appointed Chairman of Lasalle in Aberdeen , and serves on the Advisory Board of the Strathclyde Business School . |
| 14 | Also a receiver is only appointed over the assets of a company and does not control the shares in that company unless he has been appointed receiver over the assets of its holding company . |
| 15 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 16 | Jose Urbina Lara , leader of the group , who stormed the embassy on 8 March , stayed behind at the airport but was expected to leave later for the Dominican Republic , where he has been granted asylum . |
| 17 | Aged 52 , he has been watching badgers ‘ man and boy ’ and has never tired of their antics , especially the young at play with fox cubs . |
| 18 | He has been named Generalissimo , seen as a further step towards the succession of his son and heir , Kim Jong Il . |
| 19 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 20 | He has been given instructions to this effect . |
| 21 | He has been given time to develop and in a recent interview on TV the trainer was even talking in terms of a possible Grand National victory . |
| 22 | He has been given commerce and tourism . |
| 23 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
| 24 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 25 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 26 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 27 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
| 28 | Equally , he has been monitoring petitions organised by various bodies and puts the signature level at above the 100,000 mark . |
| 29 | His new Food and Beverage Manager appears to accept the idea as theoretically desirable , but gives it a low priority in practice : privately , he has been urging Winter to ‘ crack the whip a bit ’ , arguing that the whole establishment needs ‘ a good shake up ’ before reforms can be introduced effectively . |
| 30 | ALAN McCloskey , from the Rook 's Nest , Armoy , has strung together some wonderful performances this year and as a fitting reward he has been re-elected secretary of the Ballymoney pool league . |