Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackpool had been experimenting with extensive rebuilding of the Marton and Motherwell cars , but the confines of Blundell Street Depot limited the scope of such activities . |
| 2 | The AEEU Scottish organiser , Harry McLevy , said he thought both sides had been inching towards some sort of agreement . |
| 3 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 4 | It 's a long time it 's been going since that sort of thing . |
| 5 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 6 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 7 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 8 | The way I put it was intentional and I think if we had n't been sitting in full view of some dozen of the hotel 's guests he would have hit me . |
| 9 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 10 | URANUS and Neptune have been trundling through this part of your chart for some time which may explain all the false starts , not to mention the general instability . |
| 11 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 12 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 13 | The junk-bond industry has been indulging in some quasi-securitisation of its own . |