Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIRECTOR Terence Young has been telling me about his new film project — a suspense movie , Metal Tree , starring close friend Brooke Shields . |
| 2 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 3 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 4 | ANNA Bergman has been telling me about her best Christmas present — a reconciliation with her father , Swedish film director Ingmar . |
| 5 | Marie has been telling me about her . |
| 6 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 7 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 8 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 9 | ONE of the most sensational life-forms on this planet , Sigourney Weaver , has been telling us about Alien 3 which opens here next week . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose Iris has been telling you about my chats with ‘ the nutter ’ , as she calls him ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And who has been filling you with canards about Honoria Greville ? |
| 12 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 13 | Ozymandias , whose famous admonishment has been haunting me from Day One , seems to lurk round every corner , laughing up his sleeve . |
| 14 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 15 | Stark 's confidence appears to have been at a low ebb but the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , has been reminding him of his form earlier in the season : at the Dubai Sevens , which the Scots won ; in the A international against Italy in Melrose when the Boroughmuir winger had a hand in both tries ; and in his senior international debut against Ireland at Murrayfield , when he scored one try and was heavily involved in the other from Tony Stanger . |
| 16 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 17 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 18 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 19 | EMC Corp , Hopkinton , Massachusetts has sold more than $10m-worth of 4800 Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array storage devices to Delta Air Lines , Atlanta , Georgia : Delta previously used IBM Corp kit exclusively , namely 3380s , 3880s , 3090s and 3990s , but has been replacing them with Symmetrix 4400 and 4800 systems since November 1991 ; EMC claims that 15,000 square feet of floor space has been saved as a result ; it also attests to a 50% performance improvement over cached 3380s for reservation systems running on IBM 's 3090 Model 400 , a performance increase of between 30% and 50% with Airline Control Program and a performance boost of 30% to 40% with MVS , running off Hitachi Ltd EX 100s . |
| 20 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 21 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 22 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 23 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 24 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 25 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 26 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 27 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 28 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 29 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 30 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |