Example sentences of "[subord] it have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 2 | He was standing back to admire the conflagration when the full weight of its rightful resident landed on him from a bough above , where it had been watching . |
| 3 | She was wasting her time ; without knowing exactly where it had been lying , there was no means of identifying the spot from where it had fallen . |
| 4 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 5 | FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work . |
| 6 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 7 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 8 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 9 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 10 | Although it has been declining slightly among men under 65 during the past 20 years , it is still rising in women . |
| 11 | KITS needed much more of her attention than it had been getting recently , and was now in a disturbing financial position : it did n't look as if the company would make a profit in 1966 . |
| 12 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 13 | Mind you it 's true he'd' 've got more for it probably if it 'd been working but |
| 14 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 15 | It was noticeably warm , as if it had been hiding somewhere snug . |
| 16 | If it had been pouring with rain the walk would have been cancelled , and that would have been more in keeping with Lucy 's mood , which was one of deep depression . |
| 17 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 18 | If it had been spinning a bit more , it would of kept on . |
| 19 | So they came back but of course , if it 's jus if it 's been pouring in on that bathroom ceiling again it 's , it , when I took , when Elsie called up to me , come and look at this , the bathroom ceiling was black mould ! |
| 20 | if it 's been standing on the floor though , only the top leaves would , I do n't know what to do about having it there though , that 's right above the radiator , it 'll dry it out that 's , that 's why I said |
| 21 | Cos it had been playing on her mind for weeks . |
| 22 | But I mean the chap was quite within his rights to shoot it cos it 's been scaring his sheep . |
| 23 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 24 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |
| 25 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 26 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm so glad I told you , ’ she continued — ’ I 've been feeling terribly guilty while it 's been going on . ’ |
| 28 | The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks . |
| 29 | After it has been raining , go out in rubber boots to look for puddles , and walk through them . |
| 30 | So let her empty her bladder after it 's been sitting there overnight , and then a nice fresh sample . |