Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Our Political Editor Peter Hayes has been looking at Labour 's week in Brighton . |
| 32 | Computer buff Steven has been jobhunting since graduating from London 's Imperial College four years ago . |
| 33 | Local artist Hazel Albarn has been working with ten and 11-year-olds and their teachers , helping them design and create large sculptures relating to their other work topics . |
| 34 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 35 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 36 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 37 | Brian Eaton , a collector from Camberley has been rummaging around car boot sales and found a splendid aluminium model of a DH.91 Albatross . |
| 38 | The largest gathering of American cars outside the United States has been assembling in the region . |
| 39 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 40 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 41 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 42 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 43 | Donna had been rummaging beneath the bed upstairs , where she 'd pulled out both of the metal cases . |
| 44 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 45 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 46 | Fanshawe had been lying on his face and the fire had scarcely touched him . |
| 47 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 48 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 49 | Gryschenko had been missing for more than two days . |
| 50 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 51 | Was this what Edward had been waiting for ? |
| 52 | Dustin had been working at his antique desk all morning on contact sheets of his wedding pictures , taken almost a year before , trying to pick out the ones to develop . |
| 53 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |
| 54 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 55 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 56 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 57 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 58 | Mahoney had been walking down the street on his way to the Bonanza Club when he was shot down . |
| 59 | The cause was either the butane gas heater or the electric lead lamp Mr Whitley had been using under the car , or both , setting fire to petrol vapours . |
| 60 | Previously , Mr Ntoni-Nzinga had been studying for a doctorate in theology and anthropology in Manchester , UK . |