Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 2 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 3 | The microlight had been flying for nearly half an hour when it crashed into a field . |
| 4 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 5 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 6 | Oh it had been going for quite some time , I do n't know really when they would start . |
| 7 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 8 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |
| 9 | And the candlestick is beautiful — dare I say we 've been lusting after just such a one for ages , and now we can enjoy your gift . |
| 10 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 11 | Thunderbirds have been going for over half a century … and with the next generation Its they 're set to continue for another twenty five years Fab . |
| 12 | MY work has been written in sand and after my death will disappear in a decade or so , ’ wrote August Bournonville ( 1805–79 ) , the Danish choreographer whose ballets are still in the repertory , and whom the Danes have been celebrating with yet another Bournonville festival in Copenhagen . |