Example sentences of "who have be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Improved cost control — nowadays more important than ever for local businesses — as invoices can list who has been buying what and when on your Shell account , and the card can remove the need to settle your account with cash or cheques . |
| 2 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 3 | I 'm happy to say I 'm going to marry the young man who has been courting me , Sergeant Troy . |
| 4 | There is a Swede called Birger Dahlerus who has been aiding him . |
| 5 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 6 | Ivars has spoken of a Soviet based in the country who has been building what he terms a ‘ Sky Bug ’ but what we in the FlyPast office think must be a Flying Flea of sorts . |
| 7 | Firms may not wish to prosecute an employee who has been fiddling them but may prefer to deal with the matter informally , to avoid bad publicity or appearing inefficient and the Possible loss of the confidence of their clients . |
| 8 | Then she marched back to the front of the class , dusting off her hands one against the other like someone who has been handling something rather grimy . |
| 9 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 10 | ‘ And who has been filling you with canards about Honoria Greville ? |
| 11 | But who has been clutching whom ? |
| 12 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 13 | Mention earlier of the out-and-out-all-round entertainer , Mr Donovan leads me to Miss Kylene Minogue , the law of diminishing returns , who has been turning her thoughts to matters matrimonial . |
| 14 | The chateau of Pau was the birthplace of King Henry IV of France , who has been edging his way into my text all along . |
| 15 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 16 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 17 | ‘ These show who has been doing it . ’ |
| 18 | The record 's jazz stylings have already attracted the attention of DJ Gilles Peterson at London 's Jazz FM , who has been playing it on tape for some time . |
| 19 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 20 | A court has heard how a father gunned down a drugs dealer who 'd been supplying his sons with cannabis . |
| 21 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 22 | They could n't catch this stallion : it was in a loose box and it got on top of the chap who 'd been leading it . |
| 23 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 24 | I bus-hopped back to Hackney , feeling a bit of a prune sitting there in my suit in between a gaggle of wrinklies who 'd been blowing their pensions down the supermarket . |
| 25 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 26 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 27 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 28 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 29 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 30 | A round the world yachtsman has been telling tales of the sea to a group of schoolchildren who 've been supporting him on his latest adventure . |