Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have been investigating charges by Farrow that Allen sexually molested their adopted daughter Dylan , aged seven , at Farrow 's summer house in Connecticut . |
| 2 | The people who would fly a Virgin airline were the same young , mobile , relatively affluent people who had been buying records by Virgin artists in Virgin record stores for years . |
| 3 | The Forest of Dean freeminers have been hauling coal by hand for 700 years . |
| 4 | There have been recurring attempts by the police service since World War II to develop alternative means of entry and promotion to the traditional progression from the ranks , which have always been met by by by bitter reference to the schemes of the 1930s . |
| 5 | To do this he had been dropping dummies by parachute near Italian prisoner-of-war camps , and the advent of some real parachutists was an obvious gift . |
| 6 | US aircraft have been dropping supplies by air since 1 March , but aid workers say that is not enough to feed the people . |
| 7 | We should have been putting money by for a rainy day because that rainy day came . |
| 8 | But I think that if it had been , the horses should have been showing distress by last night , which they were n't . |
| 9 | Americans have been saluting Presidents by means of song since George Washington 's time , one Philip Phile composing ‘ The President 's March ’ which was supposedly played at Honest George 's inauguration . |
| 10 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 11 | In a few cases private individuals have been receiving journals by post , if they weigh less than 300 grams . |
| 12 | Barnes had been burning leaves by the haha , the bonfire still smouldered , the smoke drifting over the paddock . |
| 13 | Therefore Neill LJ must have been contemplating protection by an express restrictive covenant of confidential information in respect of which an obligation against use or disclosure after the determination of the employment could not be implied . |