Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 2 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 3 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 4 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 5 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 6 | Any sizable successful herbivorous group surely can not have been relying on one such geographically limited group of seed-plants to the exclusion of all others . |
| 7 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 8 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 9 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 10 | Richard , of course , had been preparing for some such move . |
| 11 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 13 | I mean , we 've been working towards all this for years , you know ? |
| 14 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 15 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 16 | erm , moving on , erm audio description in Scotland , no er since this , the last meeting , yes Cath and I have been talking about all that money , we had an entertaining day out |
| 17 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |