Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 3 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's been running for a bookie again , Sarah . |
| 5 | Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better . |
| 6 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 7 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 8 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 9 | Having been working on a drama spontaneously , the class ( either as a whole group , or in small groups ) are asked to consider the most important moment in the story so far , and to represent that moment as a still image . |
| 10 | Have you ever been working on a program late at night that throws up error codes with a number such as ‘ ERROR CODE 201 ’ which means nothing at all to you . |
| 11 | They didn they ne had n't been working in a quarry all that long . |