Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhausted by the glare of fame that has been his lot since NME elevated him to cult status TDFC ( as we like to call him , being mates and all that ) has been trying to relax by helping his bandmate CARL build a replica of London out of matchsticks in his Manchester bedroom . |
| 2 | ‘ For 20 years ’ , said Mr Beckman , ‘ the European Community has been trying to agree on air fares . |
| 3 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 4 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 5 | And thirdly , I have certain highly specialized information about this planet , worrying enough in itself , that somebody has been trying to prise from my mind . |
| 6 | In a speech that blended music-hall style with soap-box rhetoric , the veteran left wing MP for Bolsover , said : ‘ For too long the Labour Party has been trying to follow in the wake of Mrs Thatcher 's agenda . |
| 7 | Pablo Benavides , the European Community official who has been trying to mediate between Slovakia and Hungary over the future of the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project [ see ED 67 , 68 ] , has said that his efforts to negotiate a compromise have " reached the limit of possibilities " . |
| 8 | The Joint Working Party on Flexible Training has been meeting to consider in detail the arrangements for part time training at senior registrar level and the need for a formal scheme for other grades . |
| 9 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 10 | In general , however , his contribution to the cinema has been disappointing compared with his work for the legitimate theatre and the opera house . |
| 11 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 12 | Simpkin , the inventor of a new set of kicking tees used by his players in Catania , has been waiting to hear from the International Board on his amateur status , allegedly jeopardised by his involvement in a professional capacity with the Hong Kong Union . |
| 13 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 14 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 15 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 16 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 17 | Kate gave him a suspicious look , but he seemed to have recovered from the rage she 'd been fairly sure he 'd been trying to keep under control before she left the room . |
| 18 | Flustered by his presence , thrown off balance by the feel of his hard body against her own , she suddenly clamped her mouth shut , horrified to realise she 'd almost told him she 'd been rushing to get to him . |
| 19 | And the extra that they should have had is going to pay for these uniforms . |
| 20 | They may have been intending to talk about reform of the Labour Party constitution , but what ordinary trade unionists heard was senior members of the Party talking as if they were ashamed of the trade union connection . |
| 21 | I suppose I must have been intending to explain to Mr Farraday how I would thus be able to explore an option which might prove the ideal solution to our present small problems here in this house . |
| 22 | Parliament may have been intending to legislate in such all-embracing terms . |
| 23 | I ca n't be certain how much I would have been earning working for myself … ’ |
| 24 | I really think he should have been going to try on a left footed shot from there . |
| 25 | Bermúdez , however , was a vocal opponent of any political accommodation with the FSLN and was known to have been planning to visit to one of the special resettlement regions for former contras [ for details of unrest among former contras in November 1990 see pp. 37849-50 ] . |
| 26 | Cynewulf was slain in 786 by a rival aetheling , Cyneheard , the brother of the former king , Sigeberht , whom he had been seeking to expel from Wessex ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) , and succeeded by Beorhtric . |
| 27 | En route for Baghdad he met Mitterrand in Paris on Jan. 11 , EC foreign ministers and also Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar ( who had been seeking to mediate on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement ) in Geneva later that day , and King Hussein of Jordan in Amman that evening . |
| 28 | After his recapture , Lekule alleged that Prince Mfanasibili Dlamini , a prominent member of the royal family found guilty of high treason in November 1987 [ see p. 36008 ] , had been plotting to escape from prison . |
| 29 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 30 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |