Example sentences of "been [v-ing] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOBODY really noticed , but Neil Kinnock has been nursing a chest cold . |
| 2 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |
| 3 | Communist Party of the Philippines — Marxist-Leninist ( CPP-ML , split from the pro-Soviet PKP in 1968 , Benito Tiamzon ch. , Saturnino Ocampo gen. sec. ) — the CCP-ML 's military wing , the New People 's Army ( NPA ) , has been waging a guerrilla war since 1969 ; Grand Alliance for Democracy ( GAD , established in 1987 to co-ordinate the anti-Aquino opposition in the legislative elections , the GAD included the Mindanao Alliance , Nacionalista Party , Social Democratic Party and the Kalaw wing of the Liberal Party , Juan Ponce Enrile pres . ) ; |
| 4 | We could learn much from CPRE which has been administering a Campaign Fund for this purpose for a few years . |
| 5 | I 've been using a leave-in conditioner on my hair and am very pleased with the results . |
| 6 | The mother , who already has twins , had been using a fertility drug . |
| 7 | Wearing one of his more elaborate uniforms complete with medals , the monarch had been using a soda siphon , which , because of some defect , had backfired and showered him with mineral water . |
| 8 | Having ensured that a sterile first half ended goalless by making a tremendous reaction save to thwart Olney , Grobbelaar , who has been walking a selection tightrope all season , then allowed a far from ferocious low shot by Daley at the end of a thrilling 50-yard burst to slip under him and into the net . |
| 9 | For a long time , I have been advocating a mortgage rescue scheme that would allow people to stay on in their properties on a short let tenancy . |
| 10 | ‘ Recently , we have been developing a consortium approach to a whole range of qualifications . |
| 11 | For the last 5 years , chemists in Gloucestershire which display this sign have been operating a needle exchange system . |
| 12 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 13 | However , some in the Treasury are understood to have been recommending a base rate increase for some weeks on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence that the economy had cooled . |
| 14 | The man who designed Princess Diana 's wedding dress has been presenting a school fashion show . |
| 15 | Alice P. had been supporting a bedridden sister for years when she herself died in 1952 . |
| 16 | He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning , whether it was snowing or not . ’ |
| 17 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 18 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 19 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 20 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 21 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 22 | To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference . |
| 23 | John Ransome , who had been expecting a first-round tie against Mark Maclean , gratefully accepted the benefit of the Scottish No 1 's withdrawal by ousting fellow Englishman Paul Johnson . |
| 24 | John Ransome , who had been expecting a first-round tie against Mark Maclean , gratefully accepted the benefit of the Scottish No 1 's withdrawal by ousting fellow Englishman Paul Johnson . |
| 25 | Prestbury Park 's been having a heat wave … gallons upon gallons of water are being pumped onto the course to make the going good … |
| 26 | He might as well have been blowing a dog whistle for all we heard of his wasted energy . |
| 27 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I have been doing a meteorology course at the Met Office College in Reading , ’ she tells me . |
| 29 | The last time I heard from her she was planning to marry her live-in partner — they have been running a wholefood shop and café ! |
| 30 | Coming from a long line of seafarers , Mr Nelson has been running a pleasure cruise business for many years , taking would-be sailors out on fishing and boating trips . |