Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 32 | The problem is that more has been coming out of the pot than going into it over recent years . |
| 33 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 34 | TAZ Bey 's theory of the ‘ temporary autonomous zone ’ has been floating around on the margins of Stateside cybertippy culture for a couple of years and has now drifted over here . |
| 35 | The IBM Corp share price has been floating around in the mid-$50s range as the memory of the ghastly fourth quarter begins to fade and odd bits of encouraging news come out — but the first quarter figures will soon begin to loom , and evidence that they will not be too jolly comes from BMC Software Inc , which warns of continuing weakness in international sales , and that customers are delaying purchases to study alternatives to mainframes , which are falling out of favour . |
| 36 | A glance at the coupon of the new issue and what it has been paying out on the ones being redeemed shows the reason for the moves . |
| 37 | He says the tabloid press has been hitting out at the Lords for a long time . |
| 38 | Watchpoint : If you are in the right category , but your weight has been creeping up over the years , then it would be wise to reassess your eating habits . |
| 39 | Experts said lava , which since December has been flowing out of the eastern Sicily volcano , had now increased in speed to a rate of 1.5 miles a day . |
| 40 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 41 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 42 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 43 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 44 | Also there were the people who 'd been coming in to the shop when it was still Let It Rock . |
| 45 | ‘ I 'd say you 'd been sitting out in the sun too long . ’ |
| 46 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 47 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 48 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 49 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 50 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 51 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 52 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |
| 53 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 54 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 55 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 56 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 57 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 58 | The deputy was a Socialist , he had been speaking out against the old work conditions that were being reimposed . |
| 59 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |
| 60 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |