Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 2 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
| 3 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 4 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 5 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 6 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 7 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 8 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 9 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 10 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 11 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 12 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 13 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 14 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 15 | Mary had been playing with some other children in the stable yard and had suddenly fainted . |
| 16 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 17 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 19 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 20 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 21 | Furthermore , since the Korean War , military expenditure has , by and large , been falling as a percentage of GDP and material living standards have been rising in most capitalist economies . |
| 22 | The comment concerned the standard of opposition Leeds have been facing during this unbeaten run and in particular the last match . |
| 23 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 24 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |