Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 3 | Merson does n't hide the fact that he has been struggling with his weight . |
| 4 | A paperboy has been telling of his ordeal at the hands of a gunman . |
| 5 | Hunter has been training with his team-mates but on match nights has had to go it alone . |
| 6 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 7 | The company was a victim of the mania for leveraged buyouts of the late 1980s and has been staggering under its burden of debt . |
| 8 | He has been plotting since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 9 | Ron Roddan has been coaching at his club , Thames Valley Harriers , for twenty-nine years , first at the Alperton track in north-west London and later at the West London Stadium . |
| 10 | One of the former pupils , who 's now nineteen , has been speaking about his ordeal . |
| 11 | A patient who claimed he almost died after a doctor failed to diagnose his heart attack , has been speaking about his battle against medical red-tape . |
| 12 | A man charged with the manslaughter of twin sisters in a barn fire has been speaking of his ’ sheer panic ’ when the fire broke out . |
| 13 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 14 | Petula has been living at her London home this year while Claude has stayed in Geneva . |
| 15 | She has been living with her friend Jane Eager at Scira Court , Wylam Avenue , Darlington , since October and applied to the council as a homeless person last month . |
| 16 | They 're opening the gates of the Manor Ground for the first time this season tomorrow … new signing Anton Rogan has been trying on his shirt today … |
| 17 | But anxiety has been flickering across their faces since they heard about Northern Ireland 's triumph in Albania . |
| 18 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 19 | Maria Harris has been staying with her parents at Wood Farm since returning to Britain just days before Saddam Hussein 's forces marched in , exactly two months ago . |
| 20 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $100 introductory price on the stuff . |
| 21 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $99 introductory price on the stuff ( UX No 413 ) . |
| 22 | All this time his friend has been tugging at my shoulder . |
| 23 | Darlington has been boasting about its forthcoming attraction at the Cornmill . |
| 24 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 25 | A curd which has been soaking in its own whey makes an acid cheese ( which explains the often sharp taste of Eastern Mediterranean white cheeses which are sometimes stored in whey ) . |
| 26 | The reason the peseta has not blown before now may be because the Bank of Spain has been looking after its currency in a novel way . |
| 27 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 28 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 29 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 30 | The Blackrag Madonna nods as he speaks , then whispers to a scrap of a follower who has been hiding in her robes throughout the interview . |