Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 2 | You 've got all red eyes there where you 've been crying . |
| 3 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 4 | So what we are aiming to do is to set up more joint projects , like the one on financial instruments , where we have been working very closely with Canada . |
| 5 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 6 | Where where they 've been bombing it |
| 7 | Up to 400 Cuban military advisers are reported to be at fortified bases in northern Panama , where they have been training the the militia of the Dignity Battalions , the Washington Times said yesterday . |
| 8 | A GROUP of British students has recently returned from a trip to South America , where they have been researching into the flora and fauna of the Colombian Amazon basin . |
| 9 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
| 10 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 12 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
| 13 | ‘ So I 've been grieving for him . ’ |
| 14 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 15 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 16 | Fortunately , I had my suspicions about it right from the start , so I 've been working closely with the police to help clear it up . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 18 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 19 | Weather gets nastier here — my week in 21–28 October was warm and wet , so I lazed and read and ate — read a lot and ate a lot which , given the state of the bathroom scales , enriched both mind and body ( HA HA ) so I have been trying to eat and drink less . |
| 20 | The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’ |
| 21 | Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income . |
| 22 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 23 | If you love ‘ im , Maggie , treat yourself better than you 've been doing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So you 've been describing us , have you , David ? |
| 26 | ‘ So you 've been paying this other man for three months . |
| 27 | ‘ So you have been thinking about them . |
| 28 | ‘ So you have been thinking , Friar ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So you have been waiting . |
| 30 | An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily . |