Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 2 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 3 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 4 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 5 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 6 | The sun 's been shining all week over Hereford : United are on a high , five goals against Colchester was the best news there 's been for years at Edgar Street . |
| 7 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 8 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 9 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 10 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 11 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 12 | State governments have been closing these hospital based services to help save money on their capped budgets , on the assumption that patients will be able to obtain such services in the community , funded by the open ended Medicare budget from the federal government . |
| 13 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 14 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 15 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 16 | Turned out she wanted to know if Uncle Adam had been sending any radio messages . |
| 17 | Our Nicola 's been moaning all week ! |
| 18 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 19 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 20 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 21 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 22 | Hundreds of people have been auditioning this week for the chance to be one of the faces in the crowd . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ Throughout the 1980s more people have been working each year in Darlington . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 25 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 26 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 27 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 28 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 29 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 30 | Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years . |