Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eighteen year old Sandra Griffiths , a kennel maid , has been undergoing surgery in Milton Keynes General Hospital . |
| 32 | Gordon 's favours Umbrian juniper berries — and the Scarponis , who have been harvesting juniper for Gordon 's for over 40 years , use their local knowledge to find the very best juniper Umbria can offer . |
| 33 | a while to transpose , I 've been printing stuff on card recently , |
| 34 | My first contact with Todd , was through a teacher in the program who had been providing catechesis for Todd . |
| 35 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 36 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 37 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 38 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 39 | Houseplants are good for you , according to Californian a laboratory that has been doing research for NASA into the use of plants in space . |
| 40 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 41 | We 've been losing sleep with worry since we were told about the arrests . |
| 42 | For the first time in such talks the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , which in previous weeks had been losing ground to government forces throughout southern Sudan , was represented by two independent delegations : the so-called Torit group led by Col. John Garang , and a splinter group supporting Lam Akol , based at the town of Nasir [ for SPLA split see p. 38426 ] . |
| 43 | ‘ They 've been cutting turf since daybreak , making the most of the good weather . ’ |
| 44 | Farm animals in the area contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 have been giving birth to offspring with major birth defects . |
| 45 | As those Hon. Members who were in Committee know , I have been giving advice to Strathtay , which is the current Scottish Bus Group company , and to Stagecoach , both of which operate in my constituency . |
| 46 | A contributor to the Funeral Service Journal who declares himself to be ‘ a devoted and qualified embalmer and tutor ’ is a funeral director who has recently been giving advice to readers . |
| 47 | The Forest of Dean freeminers have been hauling coal by hand for 700 years . |
| 48 | If he said ‘ No ’ , he would have been committing treason against Rome . |
| 49 | the moves today came as no surprise … speculation has been linking Hoddle with Chelsea for weeks … |
| 50 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 51 | I 've been no I 've been taking kind of palpitations , I do n't know , and I 'm as tired as |
| 52 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 53 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 54 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 55 | They 've been taking part in Playday '92 … a national event emphasising the importance of play . |
| 56 | A SERIES of team-building initiatives have been taking place across AEA to give staff at all levels the opportunity to work together to formulate team action plans which can be applied in the workplace . |
| 57 | Under its new chief executive , John Houliston , big changes have been taking place at Dairy Crest as it prepares for a stock market flotation next year . |
| 58 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 59 | On energy , consultations have been taking place on generation , conservation and solar energy . |
| 60 | Nevertheless , as this report proves , a whole panoply of activity has been taking place on behalf of the membership and it is to the credit of our staff that we ended such a difficult year with a small surplus when other professional institutes regrettably hard large deficits . |