Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CINOA , as international union of national associations of art dealers has been dealing with these issues for quite some time , albeit with modest success . |
| 2 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 3 | W H Smith has been trading from these premises behind the elegant arcades of the Rue de Rivoli in Paris since 1903 |
| 4 | Recoup is working on these problems and collaborating with Reprise International Plastics Recycling Ltd which is making a substantial investment in a plant to clean and separate plastics . |
| 5 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 6 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 7 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 8 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 9 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 10 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 11 | I 've been thinking about these requests for miracles . |
| 12 | I 've been thinking about these blinds for such a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 14 | And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ . |
| 15 | Soviet oilmen have been tapping into these supplies since the 1940s , when they created Oil Rocks , a gigantic production centre with 200 kilometres of causeway , built on concrete piles and landfill offshore . |
| 16 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 17 | How can teachers be prepared to undertake the process of pragmatic mediation that I have been proposing in these chapters ? |
| 18 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 19 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |