Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
| 2 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 3 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 4 | The aim of the seminars was to bring together everyone who had been conducting social anthropological fieldwork in Scotland recently . |
| 5 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 6 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 7 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 8 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |