Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] [v-ing] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final insult has been moving Coronation Street forward half an hour to show European Cup games . |
| 2 | THE New Zealand Dairy Board has been touring Europe over the past two weeks pressing its case for continued access to the British dairy market . |
| 3 | The SAAF had been operating Dakotas since June 1943 , with a total of 58 on charge , flying principally from southern Africa to North Africa and then into Italy . |
| 4 | Labour have been talking Britain down so hard , relishing every piece of bad news , rubbing their hands at any failure in public services , that they have chosen to forget what a great country Britain really is , ’ said the broadcast . |
| 5 | I accept that erm and of course he 's dealing with it , approaching it from the basis that that factual issue is one she 's resolved in favour of the plaintiff erm it may be that there 's very little issue between us , it may be that the defendant would concede if your Lordship were to find that er the plaintiff had been asking Mr on several occasions to get him out of the contract , it may be conceded , I know not . |
| 6 | My father has been buying Margaret a designer wardrobe and escorting her to all the best restaurants and clubs and Suzie has taken up surf-boarding . |
| 7 | It was still possible that the undertaker had been visiting Laura Passmore on the evening he disappeared , but why go to her by such a roundabout way ? |
| 8 | The laird had been studying Cameron with unwavering attention . |
| 9 | So Ace had been teaching Dara a lesson , had he ? |
| 10 | The 21-year-old student had been visiting Southport on her return to Munich after watching the TT races in the Isle of Man . |
| 11 | A research team funded by the US government has been investigating Lake Victoria 's ecology . |
| 12 | His student orchestra had been rehearsing Haydn 's Toy Symphony , with its imitation of the cuckoo 's call . |
| 13 | Tommy cook had been plaguing Pinner for months . |
| 14 | Growing numbers of migrant workers from the former Soviet Union have been entering Poland and Turkey . |
| 15 | Cricket now , and a bumper crowd has been watching Gloucestershire put up a good fight against Essex in the quarter finals of the Nat West trophy . |
| 16 | Senior officials of the African National Congress have been urging Mr Mandela to announce an official separation from his wife since her latest outburst in which she allegedly threatened and waved a pistol at Mrs Xoliswa Falati , her co-accused in last year 's trial for kidnap and assault . |
| 17 | With the assistance of various experts the Grand Duchess had been developing Miliutin 's Karlovka proposals at Wildbad in the Black Forest . |
| 18 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Solbourne 's Swedish distributor , CynCrona DeFacto AB , Stockholm , has nailed a worldwide internal purchasing agreement with L M Ericsson Telefon AB : the telecomms company has been using Solbourne servers in its Swedish offices since 1990 . |
| 20 | The Review Panel had been considering Trafalgar 's accounts for the year to 30 September 1991 since February , but the company had consistently refused to capitulate . |
| 21 | For over a year the press had been presenting Cripps as a dangerous radical , if not a republican . |
| 22 | For several years the European and American press have been proclaiming François Mitterand 's Paris to be the cultural capital of the world . |
| 23 | Mica has been touring Europe with fellow artists Aswad and Billy Ocean . |
| 24 | Mica has been touring Europe with fellow artists Aswad and Billy Ocean . |
| 25 | ‘ Your charming mother has been helping Melissa with her researches , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The pupil is 14 : the class had been reading Leon Garfield 's story . |