Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [adj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support . |
| 2 | Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys . |
| 3 | The first was that the time-shock I had suffered was inducing some highly life-like illusions . |
| 4 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been making several very funny speeches and no bugger has laughed , so I 'm coming down . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one 's hit the nail on the head . |
| 7 | GREGGS , a bakery chain with 95 branches across the region , have been attempting some similarly sweet toothed psephology . |
| 8 | And he 's been saying some very wild things to George . |