Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb base] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 2 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 3 | ‘ Angel , ’ she said , ‘ do you know why I 've been running after you ? |
| 4 | What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ? |
| 5 | ‘ Since when you have been living with Mr and Mrs Fanshawe ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So that 's why you 've been clinging to me like a leech all these months . |
| 7 | We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us . |
| 8 | That is why we have been pressing within the EC for full liberalisation of services . |
| 9 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 10 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 11 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 12 | A group of them , maybe as many as half a dozen , will slowly get to their feet from where they have been lying with the rest of the pride and , leaving the cubs and the males behind , walk off in a fashion which , although leisurely , has a grimly purposeful air . |