Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who spearheaded the British food marketing effort in Europe have been helping Northern Ireland 's food processors and manufacturers ' expansion plans . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ Julie continued , ‘ I have been driving Aunt Polly 's Chevvy for absolutely ages in the States . ’ |
| 3 | As Nigel Roebuck points out in his book with Mario , ‘ on 21 June 1964 , Jackie Stewart ( born seven months before Mario ) would have been racing Ken Tyrrell 's F3 Cooper somewhere and James Hunt playing tennis at Wellington College . |
| 4 | A research team funded by the US government has been investigating Lake Victoria 's ecology . |
| 5 | The Democrats have been calling Mr Bush 's aid plan ‘ grossly inadequate ’ and have been determined to produce an alternative that would increase the aid to the eastern European countries . |
| 6 | An enthusiast from the start , she had been attending Edith Harlow 's Woodford Green Medau class for less than a year when she approached Edith with the bold question ‘ What do I do to teach this ? ’ |
| 7 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 8 | The pupil is 14 : the class had been reading Leon Garfield 's story . |
| 9 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 10 | We 've been playing Michael Crawford 's music on the tape , well we started because she was erm tt trying to get the tune for Love Changes Everything so this morning we decided |
| 11 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , one of the candidates for John Akers ' job , has been telling IBM Corp 's directors what he reckons should be done to rescue the company — and it ai n't pretty : according to the Wall Street Journal , he is outlining something very like what we suggested , hiring top people in the appropriate industry segment — Andrew Groves , Michael Dell , Alan Shugart , Scott McNealy , people of that ilk , to run each of the new business units , and if they wo n't come on board , he says , IBM should sell them respectively the chip , personal computer , disk drive and workstation lines of business . |
| 12 | So she asked Curtis and Mrs Files — who had been watching Delia Sutherland 's reaction from the service door — to come with her into the morning room where she explained the situation as frankly as possible . |
| 13 | For several years the European and American press have been proclaiming François Mitterand 's Paris to be the cultural capital of the world . |
| 14 | Barbara , you wrote an article in the Times about all of this , you 've been following Elton John 's comings and goings in the court , what did you think |
| 15 | Incidentally , I have been following Bruce Tulloh 's programme for the London Marathon . |