Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 4 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 5 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 6 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 7 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 8 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 9 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 10 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 11 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 12 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 13 | Hardly had the Padre finished saying the Nunc Dimittis when the Doctor , who had been kneeling innocently in the front row , sprang to his feet . |
| 14 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 15 | Developing countries have been climbing hard throughout the 1980s , only to see the summit receding farther up beyond the clouds . |
| 16 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 17 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 18 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 19 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 20 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 21 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 22 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 23 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 24 | 30 staff and friends from Earlys Blankets in Witney had been looking forward to a 3-day holiday at EuroDisney . |
| 25 | 30 staff and friends from Earlys Blankets in Witney had been looking forward to a 3-day holiday at EuroDisney . |
| 26 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 27 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 28 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 29 | ‘ Danny 's really been looking forward to the fair , ’ explained Rachel to Jimmy who had pitched in and was helping the driver to lift a wheelchair from the minibus . |
| 30 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |