Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Satterley says , ‘ I love doing lace and my Silver Reed has been playing up but — one phone call — and up comes Trudi . |
| 2 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 3 | Ian Maclaren has been finding out . |
| 4 | Mrs Mandela has been shuttling back and forth with messages from her husband 's prison home near Cape Town . |
| 5 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 6 | One of my magazines in the States has been following up rumours about the Josephs . |
| 7 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 8 | IBM has been counting up its hangers-on and finds that it currently has some 40 OEMs doing things like boards and systems with the PowerPC chip . |
| 9 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 10 | No sign yet of the symmetrical multi-processors IBM has been working on with Groupe Bull SA . |
| 11 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 12 | Experts said lava , which since December has been flowing out of the eastern Sicily volcano , had now increased in speed to a rate of 1.5 miles a day . |
| 13 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 14 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 15 | Members will want to know how Pat Keen has been getting on since she gave up her classes in the London area and moved to Newquay in Cornwall to look after her 94–year-old mother . |
| 16 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 17 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 18 | Naughtie had been filling in time . |
| 19 | I confirm that Councillor Young came to the Department in July with five hours ' worth of videos showing how Derbyshire had been running down its schools . |
| 20 | He lay on his side , holding the covers over him by their edges , gazing at some of his copies of Vogue , which Tessa had been looking through and left lying on the carpet in front of the fire , where they glowed pink and red . |
| 21 | We guessed , wrongly , that Frank had been talking back home . |
| 22 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 24 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 25 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 26 | It estimates ACAS could accelerate the schedule COSE 's been kicking around by a year . |
| 27 | It estimates that ACAS could accelerate the schedule COSE 's been kicking around by about a year . |
| 28 | Tributes to Kim have been pouring in from overseas . |
| 29 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 30 | Sharpe discovered that before his long absences through injury and illness ; Giggs has been finding out this year . |