Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of what has been collecting centuries |
| 6 | Harry Scott ( 81 ) , from Jordanstown has been telling stories all his life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 9 | Man has been training birds of prey since ancient times and I am in no doubt that success has always been based on patience , mutual trust and observation . |
| 10 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 11 | Photographer Robert Doisneau has been taking pictures of the city for sixty years . |
| 12 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 13 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 14 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 15 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the High Street bank has been discussing plans to log untouched Brazilian jungle with Edinburgh forestry consultancy , Land and Timber Services . |
| 17 | For example , the Banana Company of Costa Rica , a subsidiary of United Brands , has been converting plantations to African palm production , an enterprise which has a guaranteed internal market , as Costa Rica imports nearly all its vegetable oil . |
| 18 | Oil production from Gabon 's Obando field has been breaking records recently . |
| 19 | Throughout this time , the female has been laying eggs , one at a time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | According to the US PC Week , the company has been outlining plans for a Workplace family of operating systems built under the Workplace Shell and a microkernel that will be scaled for machines ranging from handheld devices to multi-processer RISC machines . |
| 22 | Nottingham Crown Court has been hearing allegations that a taxi driver raped a lesbian passenger after picking her up from a nightclub . |
| 23 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 24 | Since the introduction of Extended Opening Hours , IBOA has been high-lighting members ' concerns . |
| 25 | Hanson has been earning megabucks for decades ; his personal wealth is estimated at around £100m and speculation is rife that before he retires he will go out with a final spectacular takeover . |
| 26 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 27 | The Climbers Club guidebook setup has been undergoing changes that should result in a much smoother flow of up to date guides without the huge time-lags that have recently featured between one volume selling out and the next one being published . |
| 28 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 29 | Several members have sent submissions to a national review called ‘ Enjoying the Outdoors ’ , and John Taylor , the secretary , has been monitoring developments in forestry . |
| 30 | Equally , he has been monitoring petitions organised by various bodies and puts the signature level at above the 100,000 mark . |