Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [prep] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
| 2 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 11 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 12 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 13 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |