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Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment .
2	‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop !
3	But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery .
4	and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under
5	The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold
6	Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park .
7	Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas .
8	Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening .
9	And that 's been another thing that 's been worrying me over the weekend .
10	perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century .
11	We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh .
12	Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent .
13	She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon .
14	By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover .
15	Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas .
16	Has he been having anything on the side ? ’
17	Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around .
18	‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy .
19	Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning .
20	He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport .
21	well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time .
22	The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup .
23	The answer had been staring him in the face .
24	It 's been staring me in the face . ’
25	‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued .
26	Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often .
27	‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said .
28	‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time .
29	Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex .
30	Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that .