Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [been] [v-ing] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
| 2 | She has been rebuilding her confidence after her Barcelona setback — and after breaking the European , Commonwealth and UK all-comers ' 2,000 metres record in 5min 40.90sec at the TSB International in Birmingham at the weekend , the Musselburgh runner says she will consider running the 3,000m in Toronto . |
| 3 | Life with Mary Top eventer Mary Thomson describes the work she has been giving her horses . |
| 4 | She 's been monitoring my progress , since I 've taken up the job again , and she is far from pleased . |
| 5 | She 's been telling her fibs again . ’ |
| 6 | You know she 's been hiding her light under a bushel , a bush . |
| 7 | She 's been sending me postcards — how 's she managed that , hey ? ’ |
| 8 | Ever since her children started school she 's been filling her time making sculptures from scrap . |
| 9 | She 's been seeing her therapist again , thought Henry , as he stumbled towards the Passat . |
| 10 | She apologizes for being thirty seconds late and says she 's been having her nails done . |
| 11 | Basically she 's been giving her Diarralite |
| 12 | I 've been saying to her well you 'll have to wait she 's been saying her feet hurt , right ? |
| 13 | She 's looking cold , and she 's been cutting her hair again . |
| 14 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |
| 15 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |
| 16 | He has been grooming his son Kim Jong-il for the succession , but the latter does not enjoy his father 's authority and a power struggle could already be under way . |
| 17 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 18 | We met at lunch , once , and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls . |
| 19 | And hours after being elected on a mandate of change , Clinton plunged straight into the hard work of weaving the magic he has been promising his people . |
| 20 | He has been making his living from music for the last three years . |
| 21 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 22 | Gordon Bradley is a familiar face at the Shrewsbury Flower Show , he has been exhibiting his arrangements there for the past 25 years . |
| 23 | It certainly explains the mask and the way he has been avoiding his friends . |
| 24 | But then , he has been checking his lambs , fattening nicely for sale in the byre . |
| 25 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 26 | In recent months it has been expanding its market research activities while offloading its education publishing division and other subsidiaries in a bid to slash debt . |
| 27 | It has been interviewing its distributors and sampling its 3,000 resellers to access geographical coverage and shortcomings . |
| 28 | But I mean the chap was quite within his rights to shoot it cos it 's been scaring his sheep . |
| 29 | Victory may have been his Down Under if this Honda had n't cooked its clutch , but he 's been expecting his Michelins to have the upper hand in hot weather . |
| 30 | ‘ Come in , Hari , sure Cleg will be that glad to see you , he 's been wearing his brother 's boots to work in and them pinching him like the devil . ’ |