Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 2 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy is never at a loss for something to say , and has been sounding off about some of the current bees in his bonnet . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 4 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 5 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 6 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 7 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 8 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 9 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 10 | The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 . |
| 11 | He built Britain 's biggest theme park , bought the world 's largest listed building and has this week been shouldering in on one of Manchester Airport 's more unusual records . |
| 12 | For 15 years the basic state pension has been uprated in line with prices , not earnings ; as a result , the living standards of the poorest old people have been drifting down against those of people in work . |
| 13 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 14 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |