Example sentences of "who have been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those who received awards yesterday was Claire Metcalfe , 15 , of Thornaby , who has been practicing judo since she was five and has now won a place in the national team . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 6 | " The African dust feeding the Atlantic and the Americas shows how very large and distant ecosystems depend on each other " , notes Michael Garstang , a soil scientist who has been conducting research in Africa , Brazil and the mid-Atlantic . |
| 7 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Any teacher who has been borrowing equipment from the Society or Jean Parmiter and is NOT using it , please return as soon as possible . |
| 10 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 11 | Kay Evans who has been seeing Molly regularly in hospital gave us up-to-date new of her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's quite amazing what turns up when one is least expecting it , ’ says Laurie Milner of the Imperial War Museum , who has been collecting material here . |
| 14 | The scheme , along with other CAP reform details on sheep and suckler cow quota , as well as new stocking density calculations , was explained to the meeting by a senior Meat and Livestock Commission economist , Mrs Lesley Greene , who has been monitoring CAP changes for the last six months . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Emma , who has been studying piano with Teresa Ardagh Walters at Holybourne Vicarage for about 18 months , also plays the cello and is a member of the Hampshire county string training orchestra . |
| 17 | The brave tot , who has been battling leukaemia since he was six weeks old , was bouncing with life yesterday as mum Michelle took him out for a treat . |
| 18 | The brave star , who has been battling cancer for four years , admits that she still suffers from terrible stagefright . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | He is returning Down Under with his dad Michael , a Northern Territory education official who has been visiting Britain for a year . |
| 22 | Mr Kelly , 32 , who has been fighting deportation from Ireland to Britain for seven years , was invited by a left-wing publishing house to help complete a mural of revolutionary figures whose works and writings it publishes . |
| 23 | I was disgusted to read your snide attack ( Disinformation , FACE 19 ) on ‘ White South African Musician Johnny Clegg ’ , who is one of the only white artistes in that country who has been fighting apartheid and trying to deal with it on the inside . |
| 24 | Mark Steers , who has been carrying Jamie 's bag for the past 15 months , got married in Liverpool on Saturday , September 5 1992 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Today , commenting on the Labour leadership election , claims that ‘ The only one who has been talking sense is John Prescott . |
| 27 | The new chief executive of Batsford , which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year , is another shareholder , Bobby Cox , who has been running Seaby , a specialist coin company with historical associations with Batsford . |
| 28 | Tonight ITV , 8pm DS GREIG fronts an undercover operation where the aim is to nab a burglar who has been running riot pulling off dozens of break-ins around a local housing estate . |
| 29 | Lawrence , who has been playing golf for almost three years , has a handicap of 20 . |
| 30 | A big-built Scottish woman , who has been playing pool in the other section of the pub , crosses over to the east side of the bar and puts in her last orders . |