Example sentences of "who have [be] [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |
| 2 | Discovering that the man who has been passing threats to me is the mighty Tod Richardson will not help me sleep peacefully in my bed . |
| 3 | The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them . |
| 4 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 5 | Mrs Jean Broke-Smith , the Lucie Clayton principal , who has been coaching debs for the show for 20 years , described the problem : ‘ Even though these girls are much more self-assured than their equivalent 20 years ago they still need to be told to push their hips and pelvis forward and to keep their bottoms tucked in , ’ she said . |
| 6 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |
| 7 | Jack , who has been breeding ferrets for more than forty years , showed us soft focus shots of brown ferrets , white ferrets , ferrets eating mice and ferrets building their nests in old Athletico programmes . |
| 8 | Her personal milliner John Boyd , who has been making hats for the princess since she was 16 , said : ‘ She already has such a collection of hats that she does n't need anything new for this occasion . ’ |
| 9 | Rourke , who has been making films since Spielberg 's 1941 in 1979 , earned his reputation in 1987 after slamming the producers of A Prayer For the Dying for turning his part into ‘ an Irish Rambo ’ . |
| 10 | Joey Dunlop , who has been having problems with his Honda and Kevin Mitchell on the 500cc grand prix Yahama , share third place on 118. 84mph . |
| 11 | For he is the kind of man who has been driving women round the bend for generations . |
| 12 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 13 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 14 | And , as an example of the caddie who finally got his own back on his player , who had been throwing clubs around in a temper all day : the player said , ‘ I make it about 110 yards to the green ; what club do you think ? ’ |
| 15 | Some pretty quick action had taken place and she had no doubt at all as to who had been issuing orders . |
| 16 | Charity said she longed for bangers and mash and mugs of hot sweet tea , but Mona , who had been watching events with a twinkling eye , said rubbish , she 'd send over to Fortnum 's for a hamper . |
| 17 | Even Yoko Ono ( noticeably absent from Gravity and Grace , who had been installing contraceptives on plinths and wrapping chairs in London in the 1960s , repeated a 1962 happening in Kynaston McShine 's Information exhibition at MOMA in 1970 : ‘ Draw an imaginary map … |
| 18 | The people who would fly a Virgin airline were the same young , mobile , relatively affluent people who had been buying records by Virgin artists in Virgin record stores for years . |
| 19 | When the new government said it would stick to the strong franc , fund managers who had been buying shares and selling francs promptly did the opposite . |
| 20 | The two ministers , who had been leading members of the defunct Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , were accused by Koffigoh of failing to show solidarity with the government . |
| 21 | The government 's promise to provide increased protection did not prevent the murder on Dec. 5 of another judge , Bernardo Jaramillo , who had been investigating activities of the Medellín drug cartel . |
| 22 | Before Kenton & Co. opened he had travelled to Bosbury in Herefordshire to learn the craft of turned rush-seated chair-making from an old man , Philip Clissett , who had been bodging chairs since 1838 . |
| 23 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 24 | Mr Daniels , from Newton Abbot , Devon , who had been making poems up in his head , was helped by a voice synthesiser which ‘ spoke ’ each letter typed , and read back what he had written . |
| 25 | It quoted an Austrian-based Romanian doctor who had been visiting relatives as saying : ‘ The first three rows of protesters collapsed dead or injured . |
| 26 | The only survivors were one family who had been visiting relatives in Bau-Bau at the time . |
| 27 | The first-class passengers on my train were mainly elderly Australian couples who had been visiting relatives . |
| 28 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 29 | As they entered the little hall , two detectives who had been playing cards swept their cards off the table like schoolboys caught in the act . |
| 30 | ‘ Give us credit for some sense ! ’ barked Iris , who had been showing signs of impatience . |