Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most fearsome figures on television has been entertaining an army of his young fans here in the region . |
| 2 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 3 | The company launched a a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 4 | The company launched a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 5 | Kate has been overseeing an AIDS education course in Constanta together with a local representative , Ana Ureche . |
| 6 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 7 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 8 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 9 | The stock market has been expecting an announcement all week . |
| 10 | Ever since September 1988 , Mr Li 's government has been pressing an austerity programme to cool the economy . |
| 11 | Immediately preceding this extracted fragment , the narrator has been describing an incident relevant to the main story . |
| 12 | The show ( from 3 December until 2 January ) is accompanied by a colour catalogue with an essay by Dan Cameron , a New York critic who has been keeping an eagle eye on the Spanish scene for some years . |
| 13 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 14 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 15 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 16 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 17 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 18 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 19 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 20 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 21 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 22 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 23 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 24 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 25 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 26 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |
| 27 | London police chiefs are understood , however , already to have been planning an initiative early next year which would lower height requirements . |
| 28 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 29 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 30 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |