Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not allowing yourself or your children to be passengers in a car if the driver is the primary sufferer and he or she has been drinking . |
| 2 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 3 | An elderly person has very delicate skin ; and if he or she has been lying or sitting in bed all day , they may develop pressure sores on the bony parts of the body — the base of the spine , the heels , the elbows or on the shoulders . |
| 4 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 5 | A person who has a migraine or who has been spinning round and round , may feel as if he is reeling over , although there is no movement to be seen by people watching him . |
| 6 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 7 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 8 | ‘ And who has been filling you with canards about Honoria Greville ? |
| 9 | ‘ And there has been looting — ah , this damned war ! ’ |
| 10 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |
| 11 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 12 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 13 | Mrs Hindle said : ‘ He was so pleased with his bike and he has been itching to get outside and play on it . |
| 14 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 15 | So now he is my enemy , I have touched his pride , and he has been waiting only the moment to humiliate me … ’ |
| 16 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 17 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 18 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 19 | members to members , and not perhaps for officers to interfere too much other than to give you background information , and it has been falling off , let me just say that . |
| 20 | For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months . |
| 21 | They were offered the job and it has been working very well . |
| 22 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 23 | Breeding was confirmed ten years later in the Kent marshes , and it has been increasing in numbers and colonising more reed beds in the years since . |
| 24 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 25 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 26 | However , I warn people against lumping together pindown and what has been happening in Leicestershire . |
| 27 | There was an interesting article in The Sunday Telegraph on 1 December by Mr. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , in which he speaks about the devastation in Vukovar and what has been happening in Croatia . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 29 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 30 | Then , raising her voice , ‘ I do n't think Lady Joanna expects you to play with her , my lady , but she has been asking if you are feeling more rested . |