Example sentences of "and have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company was a victim of the mania for leveraged buyouts of the late 1980s and has been staggering under its burden of debt . |
| 2 | Barrington has taken over as the Squash Racquets Association 's Director of Excellence , and has been passing on the benefit of his vast experience to young British players like Marshall , Chris Walker ( world ranked 10 ) , Del Harris ( 11 ) , and Simon Parke ( 12 ) . |
| 3 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 4 | Arafat , determined to rally Palestinians behind the deal , began the round of meetings on Thursday and has been struggling since then to overcome opposition of at least four of the 12 members attending , Palestinian sources said . |
| 5 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 6 | Mr Guerin has not been seen since the scandal broke , and has been communicating with the authorities through his lawyer in Philadelphia . |
| 7 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 8 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 9 | Apart from performing the worst of all US football teams in 1990 , the team has amassed losses of $20m since Kiam took over and has been playing to 70 per cent capacity despite some improvement this season . |
| 10 | The tank is 60″ × 24″ × 18″ and has been running for twelve weeks . |
| 11 | IDG World Expo is trying to pull together a Unix Fair ‘ 93/Tokyo for December 8 to 10 at the Pacifico Yokohama and has been touting for prospects for the show at UniForum . |
| 12 | Can I also say really I agree with Martin when he said erm , and has been saying for at least six months that surely we have more important things to , to talk about than , than this and I 'm sorry for Martin that he had to erm , give in really and put this I was the movement of the amendment in January ninety two erm , which confirmed that the rights of tenants and old occupiers of land in county council ownership to er allow or stop fox hunting over land in their care . |
| 13 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 14 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 15 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 16 | David Cox studied the horn in New Zealand and has been working in London since 1984 , with Quintus , the Albion and Almeida Ensembles , the Sixteen , the Hanover Band and the Academy of Ancient Music . |
| 17 | Jane Henderson , who initiated the arts projects at West Middlesex University Hospital and has been working in Hospitals since 1986 , is committed to the community aspect of her work , but she is not blind to the costs of her own creativity . |
| 18 | Often the pilot is lost and has been worrying for the past half an hour about where he is . |
| 19 | Back down to Earth , and having been grumbling for months about high prices and offhand service I decided last week to try TGI FRIDAY 's AMERICAN BISTRO just newly opened in Gordon Street , Glasgow . |
| 20 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 21 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 22 | Many of the farmers were older ( 45–64 years of age ) and had been farming since school days , with attendance at training courses their only form of further education . |
| 23 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 24 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 25 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 26 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 27 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 28 | Tim , from Great Sankey , was a dedicated fan of the club and had been shopping for an Everton strip on the day of the Bridge Street bombing . |
| 29 | Amaranth was joined by Charles Harvey , who had accompanied her to the party and had been circulating among his colleagues . |
| 30 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |