Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 2 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 3 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 4 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 5 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 6 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 7 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 8 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 9 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 10 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 11 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 12 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 13 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 14 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 15 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 16 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 17 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Gould was worn out by our reverses , regretted the loss of time , and this very afternoon had been declaring with many apologies that he must go back in the Vansittart . |
| 19 | It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year . |
| 20 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 21 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 22 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 23 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 24 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |