Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 2 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 3 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 4 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 5 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 8 | Non-pay items such as drugs and equipment have been running above 7 per cent as inflation generally has risen . |
| 9 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 10 | The daughter of a rich Jewish textile manufacturer from Lodz , this highly intelligent woman of great charm and style had been living in Germany during the years when Hitler was coming to power , and the persecution of Jews had begun . |
| 11 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 12 | Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice 's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods . |
| 13 | Americans and Japanese have been collecting in Antarctica for years . |
| 14 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 15 | For who within the service is seeking or is willing to dismantle these units whose power and autonomy has been growing in strides since the Royal Commission of 1960 and the subsequent Police Act of 1964 first created the amalgamated giants ? |
| 16 | But anxiety has been flickering across their faces since they heard about Northern Ireland 's triumph in Albania . |
| 17 | But opinion has been hardening towards more coherence on curriculum and qualifications , less separation between academic and vocational , something more like a British Bac . |
| 18 | Is it because you 've taken a stand since Mother 's been taking to her bed ? ’ |