Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 2 | This microlight had been flying with the right wingtip set to maximum incidence , but with the left at one setting of reduced incidence from neutral . |
| 3 | The Yalta Repatriation agreement was the culmination of months of negotiation between the governments involved , and as the documents summarised at the end of this volume indicate [ see KPs 1–16 ] , consideration of British policy on this matter had been continuing on the highest level since the summer of 1944 . |
| 4 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |
| 5 | Lefevre , who for some time had been shifting in his seat with every sign of impatience , relaxed and smiled . |
| 6 | The wind that day had been increasing with the approach of bad weather and the instructor , who had decided that it was time to stop , was towing the glider to the hangar . |
| 7 | HP CEO John Young told a meeting of analysts last week that HP had been looking at both the USL and OSF kernels , but had no plans in place to license USL technology . |
| 8 | Mohammed Siyad Barre fled to Kenya on April 29 after forces of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) captured the south-western town of Garbaharrey where the former President had been living since being ousted from Mogadishu in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] . |
| 9 | The same production had been playing in six or seven theatres in Britain already , and no fire officer in any of those places had found any problem . |