Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 2 | The outstanding performers were Scott Loftus , of Old Loughts , who scored four , and Old Felstedians Chris Maitland and Paul Surridge , who has been holding down a place with National League First Division outfit Canterbury since leaving school . |
| 3 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 4 | To find out what effect all this burning may be having on the upper atmosphere , particularly upon global warming , the Brazilian space institute , in collaboration with NASA from the United States , has been carrying out a research programme . |
| 5 | First off though our reporter Fiona Mcbride has been finding out a bit more about Glasgay . |
| 6 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 7 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 8 | Yet for almost 20 years a black-owned company , Writers and Readers , has been putting out a line of books in Britain and America , called ‘ the Beginners Series ’ , designed to tell black children and students about history , culture and famous people . |
| 9 | It is worth pointing out that Thameslink 2000 has been put back a year . |
| 10 | He 's been chucked out a lot recently has n't he ? |
| 11 | . You 'd you 'd probably come in the daytime , and you 'd find some of the tin 's been ripped off a bit , you might find a find a corner 's been ripped off . |
| 12 | Yeah I was I had a shower , well , perhaps the water 's been turned down a bit . |
| 13 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 14 | And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals . |
| 15 | Said Guy 's been playing up a bit lately has n't he ? |