Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] been [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 2 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 3 | My mum has been minding him since he was seven months old , he is now six . |
| 4 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 5 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 6 | Ozymandias , whose famous admonishment has been haunting me from Day One , seems to lurk round every corner , laughing up his sleeve . |
| 7 | John Nelson , a communications consultant has been examining them on behalf of the Sunday Times and his conclusions are greatly at odds with the story so far . |
| 8 | John Nelson , a communications consultant has been examining them on behalf of the Sunday Times and his conclusions are greatly at odds with the story so far . |
| 9 | But Jan dolloped out a huge spoon of honey into each plate and said to Darren : ‘ Eat your honey , darling , Granny 's been poisoning you , has n't she , and your mother as well ? ’ |
| 10 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Roman has been making you work far too hard ! |
| 12 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I can smell the faggy smell even when he has brushed his teeth a couple of time and rinsed with mouthwash ’ ) and drinking ( ‘ If my husband has been drinking I do n't like to kiss him because he has stale breath ’ ) . |
| 14 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 15 | Niall 's been telling me something about you . |
| 16 | I said my wife has been giving me two and three bits every day thinking you 're having one of them . |
| 17 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 18 | You find out your wife 's been doing it with your best friend , whip in your petition for divorce and before you can say ‘ one-night stand ’ you 're a free man . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'd have been gone by now , sir , but the little devil 's been playing us up . |
| 20 | But I found out that me back 's been hurting me since I come up before , me back |
| 21 | The National Rivers Authority has been celebrating it 's first birthday today in the Fox F M region . |
| 22 | Speich said , ‘ The Colonel has been showing you his human heads , yes ? ’ |
| 23 | Our problem this season has been stopping them . |
| 24 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 25 | ‘ And that 's why that damned woman has been giving me such strange knowing looks ! |
| 26 | I wonder how long its owner has been trailing it up and down the length of England … |
| 27 | That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time . |
| 28 | ‘ Well at least we 've got this beano thanks to her — Aunt 's been planning it for weeks , ever since she heard that this lady might be coming down here , you 'd think she were dining the Prince des Galles . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The Hungarian government has been asking us what questions it should put to companies wanting to invest there , ’ Davies says . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |