Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 2 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 3 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 4 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , having been assured that Rick no longer had any violent feelings towards her , she earnestly pleaded that she had long been awaiting an opportunity to return it in person and apologise for causing so much distress . |
| 6 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 8 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 9 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |
| 10 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 11 | The City Flour Mills later came into the hands of Reynolds and Allen who had previously been working a number of other sites and had , since 1863 , been working Stratford Mills in Stroud . |
| 12 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 13 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 14 | Manufacturers have also been putting a lot of resources into providing a wide range of dry foods especially formulated for marine fish species . |
| 15 | Can I say that we ourselves have also been drafting a set of criteria , er taking on board the various points that were made on Friday morning . |