Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , someone called Harry Kellerman has been phoning people up about George , and giving him ‘ the bad mouth all over town ’ . |
| 2 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 3 | Nicolette 's fusion of banging bass and meandering , torchy vocals — spiced with American blues and African music influences — has been impressing people since she was signed by north London 's Shut Up And Dance in 1990 . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been seeing people , Father . ’ |
| 5 | He had been eating guavas. and listening , when we had discussed our destination with the conductor . |
| 6 | Imagine the uproar if these drift-netters had been intercepting salmon going to France or Germany . |
| 7 | This week , 13 and 14-year-old pupils have been gathering data on the county 's public footpath system , working as far afield as Saffron Walden . |
| 8 | It had been assisting people over the wall longer than anyone could remember . |
| 9 | The gunmen had been demanding $6 million and changes in the Nicaraguan government . |
| 10 | For over 400 years , for example , the British Foreign Office has been opening people 's mail , reading their telegrams and , more recently , listening to their telephone calls . |
| 11 | They have been challenging people without reason to declare that they are innocent of a crime . |
| 12 | Do you mean that old Hector 's been poaching salmon again ? |
| 13 | John and Jenny have been keeping fish for nearly six years . |
| 14 | Old Fishfinger has been keeping fish for more than ninety years . |
| 15 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 16 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 17 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 18 | Harrison & Hetherington , along with auctioneers nationwide , has been lobbying MPs . |
| 19 | So they 'd have been picking people in their thirties then , now they 'd be in their sixties . |
| 20 | Members of Halton Friends of the Earth have been urging people in Runcorn to call for a public inquiry into ICI 's plan for an incinerator there . |
| 21 | Greg Harvey is not only the author of over 30 computer books , but has also been training people in the use of business software since 1983 . |
| 22 | you 've been told you 've been training people ai n't you ? |
| 23 | This particular firm had been causing fish mortalities in the stream — about half a dozen fish mortalities in the sixties . |
| 24 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 25 | ‘ Speaking of that , ’ Charity said cautiously , ‘ you have n't been hiring people , have you ? ’ |
| 26 | The collapse of several large carriers , including Pan American , has provided a pool of very experienced pilots to meet the needs of surviving airlines , who in turn have not been hiring staff from traditional sources such as regional airlines . |
| 27 | Three tenants in the house say they 'd been paying £120 a week rent to their landlord , a Mr Vincent Cox . |
| 28 | Bed and breakfast accommodation for homeless people is usually overcrowded and insanitary , and yet some London boroughs have been paying £250 a week for a single room . |
| 29 | France has been paying US$20 million a year to have nuclear waste reprocessed in Russia , reportedly at the Tomsk plant . |
| 30 | Stella Clayton , Office Administrator at Hygiene Leeds has been informing staff and clients for months that she was going swimming with Freddy . |