Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 2 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 3 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 4 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 5 | ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’ |
| 6 | It means you 've — you 've been coming on to me … ’ |
| 7 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 8 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 9 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 10 | Do not simply give a list of the work you have been doing up to date but show how the experience you have gained in the other job has directly fitted you to do the new one . |
| 11 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 12 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 13 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 14 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 15 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 16 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 17 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 18 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 19 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 21 | The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time . |