Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [v-ing] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branfoot has been inviting Holland manager Dick Advocaat to run the rule over Chelsea reject Monkou all season but Shearer , for one , will be happy if the Dutch continue to ignore him . |
| 2 | In any case , as General Manager , Denis Baston has been telling Robin Powell , such major changes require careful consideration . |
| 3 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness . |
| 4 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business . |
| 5 | And , according to the Nihon Keizai Simbun , the semi-public TV network NHK has been running HDTV broadcasts eight hours a day on a test basis since last year . |
| 6 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 7 | Chairman of the Oxfordshire branch of the Council , Julian Blackwell has been telling Robin Powell that he 's delighted . |
| 8 | TOP MARKS : Whatever financial advice Johnny 's been giving Fergie has obviously paid off as the Duchess shows that she 's well and truly on top of the subject |
| 9 | Steve Denny has been serving Morland bitter at his pub in Oxford for six years . |
| 10 | Turner has been watching Mathie , who was also a target for Newcastle . |
| 11 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based on the OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell , also up on AIX . |
| 12 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based upon the OS/2 2.0 workplace shell , also up on AIX ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 13 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 14 | Dr. Ray had been watching Patrick unblinkingly as he delivered his hammer blows . |
| 15 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 16 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 17 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 18 | ‘ Leon 's been touring England for the past ten days , Delia . |
| 19 | In The Merchant of Venice Shylock and Bassanio have been discussing Antonio 's desired bond of three thousand ducats in prose , with some bitter mockery from Shylock on being invited to dinner : ‘ Yes , to smell pork , to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjur 'd the devil into . |
| 20 | It is not until Stanley overhears that Blanche has been calling Stanley ‘ an animal ’ that he decides that he will have to destroy her to save their marriage . |
| 21 | Jenny Pitman 's been hit with flu … so assistant David Stait has been getting Gary ready for the gold cup … |
| 22 | MICHAEL KNIGHTON has been offering Manchester United to a circle of prominent businessmen in the North-west in an effort to salvage his £20m takeover of the club , it emerged yesterday . |
| 23 | Mike has been selling Courtaulds products around Europe for 25 years . |
| 24 | ( On first hearing of Aviv 's findings , Plaskett reportedly exclaimed : ‘ You mean to tell me the CIA has been using Pan Am planes to run drugs ? |
| 25 | This winter Koffmann has been reinterpreting Cabessal de lievre : instead of stuffing and braising the hare he lightly roasts the fillet and laps it in a deep spicy sauce grand veneur set off by a heap of nutty pates . |
| 26 | But for months , Hay had been forcing Bryan to hand over hundreds of pounds to pay for an expensive lifestyle . |
| 27 | Coun Jones had been urging Darlington councillors to stop the production coming to the town saying : ‘ If the borough council can ban something like the Chippendales , then it should have no hesitation of stopping a soft porn version of Swan Lake . ’ |
| 28 | Southampton have been chasing Nicky Summerbee … manager John Gorman has told them he 's not interested |
| 29 | Already , a number of lawyers , employers and medical researchers from the US , Europe and Britain have been telephoning Australia to find out more about the judgment and to request copies of the ruling . |
| 30 | The men who spearheaded the British food marketing effort in Europe have been helping Northern Ireland 's food processors and manufacturers ' expansion plans . |