Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry — it was a dead cert ! |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Oh — I was just wondering , you know , because my skin 's been getting a little dry recently . ’ |
| 3 | My mum has been minding him since he was seven months old , he is now six . |
| 4 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 5 | I had not before realised that my canoe had been following me but I soon felt it as the point hit my back and then went down underneath me , dragging me down and sandwiching me between the canoe and the tree . |
| 6 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyway , that 's the way my mind 's been working . |
| 8 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 9 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 10 | One of my pet hates is finding , after lugging big speaker cabinets across vast floor spaces and collapsing in a panting heap , tilt-back casters , la Ampeg 8x10 , hidden under the vinyl slip cover . |
| 11 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 12 | I can smell the faggy smell even when he has brushed his teeth a couple of time and rinsed with mouthwash ’ ) and drinking ( ‘ If my husband has been drinking I do n't like to kiss him because he has stale breath ’ ) . |
| 13 | FOR SEVERAL years , my husband has been trying to join the Labour Party . |
| 14 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you suggesting my husband 's been drinking ? ’ |
| 16 | • It was the year , too , when I decided my fish had been eating better than I had . |
| 17 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 18 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 19 | My godmother has been singing your praises , you see , and — you will have to forgive my suspicious mind ! — it set me wondering . ’ |
| 20 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 21 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 22 | I said my wife has been giving me two and three bits every day thinking you 're having one of them . |
| 23 | We were allowed to live rent free in the gardener 's cottage , but the family allowance from the army was less than my father had been earning . |
| 24 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 25 | My father has been buying Margaret a designer wardrobe and escorting her to all the best restaurants and clubs and Suzie has taken up surf-boarding . |
| 26 | No , the fact is that my trustees have been putting the screws on . |
| 27 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 28 | What 's for sure is it will be a Mega Drama , the day I discover my man has been playing around , because I believe in fidelity and learned its importance the hard way . |
| 29 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 30 | My daughter 's been trying to get on for ages . |