Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [adv] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 2 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 3 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |
| 4 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 5 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 6 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 7 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 8 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 9 | For the past two days he had been saying so to all who would listen . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 11 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 12 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 13 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 14 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 15 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 16 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |