Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Fewer birds are involved than in spring , but up to 75 have been seen passing down the Channel in a day , and once 200 ( 19 November 1972 , Selsey Bill ) .
2 Parties have been seen flying up the Channel , presumably on migration , twice in April ( 4th , 1961 , and 7th , 1969 ) , and once in March ( 30th , 1971 ) .
3 Regulations have been made setting out the circumstances and the way in which the name of an RFL may be changed on the register .
4 Numbers vary , but up to 650 birds have been noted passing up the Channel in a spring , and movements of 50 to 100 birds in a day are an annual event ; 234 flying east off Beachy Head on 15 April 1968 is the largest single movement noted .
5 Since the introduction of the laser more operations have been performed bringing down the surgery waiting list . ’
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