Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 2 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 3 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 4 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 5 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 6 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 7 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 8 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 9 | A Mirror Group Newspapers spokesman adds : ‘ Since Mr Maxwell died , Helen Liddell has been helping out with the group . |
| 10 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 11 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 12 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 13 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 14 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 15 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 16 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 17 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 18 | In London the Shahs ambassador , Parviz Radji , who had been inter alia , the lover of Princes Ashraf , has been agonizing daily over the turn that is country had taken , the corruption of the court of which he was apart , and the inglorious way in which it has now all collapsed . |
| 19 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 20 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 21 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 22 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 23 | They have been contributing generously to the upkeep of the 800 mosques in Britain ; all they ask in return is a say over the appointment of the imam . |
| 24 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 25 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 26 | Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent . |
| 27 | Interestingly , Ritchie ( 1985 ) proposes that massive sand-blowing and renewed machair formation on Pabbay began at about 4300 B.P. Machair development had been occurring earlier as a result of rising sea-level carrying glacially derived sand across the shallow , gentle off-shore shelf to create early machair beaches and dunes ( Ritchie , 1979 ; Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |
| 29 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 30 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |