Example sentences of "[verb] been making [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Light from some distant objects was emitted before the sun first shone , and has been making its way to mankind 's eyes throughout the history of the earth . |
| 2 | Moet & chandon has been making its distinctive mark on the heritage and tradition of champagne since 1743 . |
| 3 | The corncrake , once a familiar sound on summer 's evenings , with its distinctive croaking call , has been making its home on Tory Island , 11 miles off the north west coast . |
| 4 | Creating flower wreaths and circles is a family tradition — Elizabeth Jane has been making them for as long as she can remember . |
| 5 | ‘ Roman has been making you work far too hard ! |
| 6 | In the hall , he has been making his accustomed mark from the chair . |
| 7 | Just like Walter Trout , 42 year-old Dave has been making his European debut courtesy of Dutch record label Provogue , and the album ‘ Short Fuse Blues ’ is receiving very favourable recognition with blues fans everywhere . |
| 8 | He has been making his living from music for the last three years . |
| 9 | His increasing literary output must also have been making him and his views known to the public . |
| 10 | Politicians and political parties for some months prior to the announcement of the date of the election had been making their arrangements for manifestoes and candidates . |
| 11 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 12 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 13 | She had been making her way towards Mrs Gracie 's door after walking a little . |
| 14 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 15 | For some months he had been making his preparations by placing his men in key positions , so that if and when the moment came , the coup would be swift and , he hoped , bloodless . |
| 16 | While Charles had been summoning the clans to Glenfillan Sir John Cope , 100 miles [ 160 km ] away , as the crow flew , in Edinburgh — though far further even by Wade 's splendid new roads — had been making his counter-preparations . |
| 17 | He had been making his way past the beach from the tourist information centre to a hotel which they had recommended when he was murdered . |
| 18 | For the last few weeks the baby inside her had been making itself felt . |
| 19 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 20 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 21 | But it 's encouraging that so many scientists , politicians and ( of late ) influential business people have been making it unmistakably clear to White House officials that the US position on global warming and the whole Earth Summit process absolutely stinks . |
| 22 | He 's been making himself part of the England scene by acting as spy for some time now as already noted on the list . |
| 23 | She 's been making it up . |