Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] how [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent . |
| 2 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
| 3 | An inquest 's been hearing how a fifteen year old public schoolboy died in an accident after taking his brother 's car . |
| 4 | Oxford Crown Court 's been hearing how a British Airways stewardess from Thame was threatened with death when she tried to end an affair with her boyfriend . |
| 5 | An inquest 's been hearing how a teenage joyrider died when he crashed a stolen car while trying to escape from police . |
| 6 | An inquest has been hearing how a six-month old baby girl died from a fractured skull after being dropped on her head at playschool . |
| 7 | The jury in the James Bulger murder trial at Preston have been hearing how the two eleven year old boys accused of murder blamed each other for most of the violence . |
| 8 | A court 's been hearing how an off-duty nurse saved a security guard 's life after he 'd been shot in the chest during an armed robbery . |