Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 2 | If you love ‘ im , Maggie , treat yourself better than you 've been doing . ’ |
| 3 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 4 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 5 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 6 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 7 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 8 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 9 | A sight to get the taste buds going … especially if you 've been sleeping rough the night before . |
| 10 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |
| 11 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 12 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |
| 13 | I was shocked too by Batty 's departure especially since I have been watching again and again the Leeds championship video ‘ 91/'92 in the last few days . |
| 14 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 15 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 16 | ‘ Words just ca n't express how I feel about the man who did this — especially as he had been drinking . |
| 17 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 18 | Only when he 's been drinking he just — he — ’ |
| 19 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 20 | Especially when we 've been going well . |
| 21 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 22 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 23 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 24 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 25 | She was wasting her time ; without knowing exactly where it had been lying , there was no means of identifying the spot from where it had fallen . |
| 26 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 27 | It 's just that you 've been doing things the same way for ten plus years and it 's second nature . |
| 28 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 29 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 30 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |