Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 2 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 3 | " Just been watching you on the box — you have n't changed at all . |
| 4 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 5 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 6 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 7 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 8 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |