Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 2 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've been reading an interview in Groundswell where Johnny Boy says that he 's misunderstood and really he 's got a heart of gold . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been waiting an hour , ’ I said . |
| 5 | I 've been consulting an astrologer , she thought . |
| 6 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 7 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 8 | And you know I 've been sitting an hour . |
| 9 | For some years now I have been researching an area where a certain event took place . |
| 10 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 11 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 12 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 13 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 14 | Well , she 's been having an affair with this bloke for the last year or so and then out of the blue he turned round and … |
| 15 | She 's been having an affair with Theo Sykes , and it turns out they were in Paris together at the time Puddephat was murdered . |
| 16 | Now she 's been having an argument with the council and while she 's been arguing , you know she 's got a grievance , while she 's been arguing she takes her anger out on them and tells them what she thinks of them . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been keeping an eye open for you . ’ |
| 18 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 19 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 20 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 21 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 22 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 23 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 24 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 25 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 26 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 27 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 28 | No , Rose said : he 's been doing an exorcism . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's been keeping an eye on me , old Frear . |