Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another fruitful configuration has been rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) . |
| 2 | Men have been pursuing North Uist sea-trout for hundreds of years and the island is rich in sites of archaeological interest ; brilliantly described by Dr Erskine Beveridge in his definitive book , North Uist : its Archaeology and Topography , published in 1911 . |
| 3 | Studios have been raiding network archives , and versions of everything from The Flintstones , Bewitched , The Beverly Hillbillies and Car 54 , Where Are You to The Fugitive and The Saint are apparently in development . |
| 4 | Thieves have been raiding washing lines in Ripon . |
| 5 | ‘ Been seeing Rose Hilaire ? ’ |
| 6 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
| 7 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
| 8 | Joanne Morse , 18 , had been seeing Osborne weeks before the killing . |
| 9 | The heatwave which stole Ivano 's snowfields has also been wreaking rockfall havoc around the massif , with many normally safe routes becoming places to tread warily . |
| 10 | Mick added : ‘ I was pretty proud , but if I 'd cooked it , I 'd have been eating pumpkin pie all year . ’ |
| 11 | Huh me sitting here and you 've been eating blood supper . |
| 12 | She explained that she had been eating mote cheese and drinking an extra pint of milk a day to make sure she got enough protein during pregnancy and breast-feeding . |
| 13 | On the distribution side , it has been building greenfield warehouses on the Continent and recently paid £10m to buy a facility in Warrington out of receivership . |
| 14 | Henry Ford , who had been building motor cars since the 1890s , led the field . |
| 15 | The factory 's been producing leather goods for more than seventy years at the same site . |
| 16 | Olympus have been producing pocket recorders since 1969 and invented the microcassette that combines the advantages of a normal size cassette including excellent sound quality and lengthy recording time whilst allowing the recorder to be truly pocketable . |
| 17 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 18 | United Nations negotiators fear the peace process may be derailed by the fighting , in which a Mujahideen group has been helping government units defend the base against rival Muslim rebels , according to guerrilla sources in Pakistan . |
| 19 | The men who spearheaded the British food marketing effort in Europe have been helping Northern Ireland 's food processors and manufacturers ' expansion plans . |
| 20 | Hyundai has also been helping Empress Software do a Korean version of its RDBMS and 4GL under X11 and Open Look . |
| 21 | Red Deer Commission stalkers have been helping estate staff in the Angus glens pick off marauding deer destroying farmlands . |
| 22 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 23 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |
| 24 | Unless they desperately need to believe , like the self-styled ‘ cerealogists ’ who could not accept two jokers had been manufacturing corn circles . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Solbourne 's Swedish distributor , CynCrona DeFacto AB , Stockholm , has nailed a worldwide internal purchasing agreement with L M Ericsson Telefon AB : the telecomms company has been using Solbourne servers in its Swedish offices since 1990 . |
| 26 | I have only been using LM potencies actively for about nine monthe . |
| 27 | Just as he would have been using Nicola Schreider , she reflected with sudden cold certainty . |
| 28 | ( On first hearing of Aviv 's findings , Plaskett reportedly exclaimed : ‘ You mean to tell me the CIA has been using Pan Am planes to run drugs ? |
| 29 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 30 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using photograph prints to create large composite pictures . |