Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [v-ing] money " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pensioners at the complex have been collecting money to help the town 's hospice appeal for the last two years . |
| 2 | But a bar owner said : ‘ Since this all began the town has been making money hand over fist . |
| 3 | If it is thought that the growers of any kind of grain in any part of the world have been losing money , and are likely to sow a smaller area for a future harvest ; it is argued that prices are likely to rise as soon as that harvest comes into sight , and its shortness is manifest to all . |
| 4 | But in the past few years , the insurance market has been losing money , and it has turned out that the resources of even the richest people are less than infinite . |
| 5 | Management can argue that the plant has been losing money : the unions can point to their ( not always peaceable ) acceptance of previous cost-cutting , which has reduced manning to just a few hundred from the thousands once employed there . |