Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Scott ( 81 ) , from Jordanstown has been telling stories all his life . |
| 2 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been scoring goals all season and will be a big loss to the side . |
| 4 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |
| 5 | Katharine Church has been painting portraits all her life , and at nearly 80 , has come to the conclusion that women portraitists are handicapped both by marriage ( in her case , to Anthony West , son of Rebecca West and H. G. Wells ) , and by the subjects they are ‘ allowed ’ to paint . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd been writing cheques all weekend on a closed account , ’ Vicky says . |
| 7 | They were n't even genuine improvisations : he 'd been scribbling verses all day . |
| 8 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 9 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 10 | He had been making progress that way for almost an hour . |
| 11 | I 've been drinking vodkas all night . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out . |
| 15 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 16 | I 've been doing skyscapes all day . |
| 17 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , Ben , we 've been questioning Leslie all morning and he wo n't say a dicky bird , but we think he knows who done it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been playing patience all afternoon , Miss Danziger ! |
| 20 | His speech alludes also to the scandals over corruption in political life , particularly where building contracts are concerned , which have been rocking Italy this year . |
| 21 | Many Eastern religions have been using techniques such as yoga and meditation for many centuries and both of these techniques hold much common ground with modern clinical relaxation methods . |
| 22 | United have been fighting finances this summer … only two fresh faces at the Manor … four have gone … the real test will be for a defence without Evans and Melville … |
| 23 | The odds were heavily on Central , second in division one , beating Pinewood who have been fighting relegation all season . |
| 24 | And he 's also managed to sneak in some live music from Mary Chapin Carpenter , who 's been touring Scotland this week and is about to hit the big time . |
| 25 | One of them could be Swindon 's own Duncan Shearer , who 's been scoring goals this season as though they were going out of fashion . |
| 26 | ‘ Only that Humber 's been raising Cain all day about having to carry D.I.L.s in Marcus proper and Marcus Small Ward , and how , though she 's willing , she ca n't be in two places at once . ’ |