Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 2 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 3 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 4 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 5 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 6 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 7 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 8 | I do n't know what 's got into you , but you 've been behaving like a caged lioness all morning . |
| 9 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been working like a Trojan all day ! ’ |
| 11 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been coming as a mere visitor . |
| 13 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 14 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 15 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 16 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 17 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 19 | Trade creditors , including Western Digital Corp , Seagate Technology Inc , Microsoft Corp , IBM Corp , Conner Peripherals Inc and Quantum Corp , have been operating as an unofficial creditors ' committee and are expected to become members of the Official Committee . |
| 20 | Rotosound have been experimenting with a new type of nickel plating which gives an exceptionally bright sound thanks to increased magnetic response . |
| 21 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 22 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |
| 23 | As general wisdom , the longer you have been saving towards a personal pension and the bigger the total contributions paid , the larger your pension will stand to be . |
| 24 | Yes , but I mean erm excuse me erm there are a lot of people who have been saying for a long time , the council are dragging their heels and they 're not doing anything . |
| 25 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 26 | Those boys have been playing with a short mallet since they were two . |
| 27 | Members of an operational group at Statoil 's office in Forushagen have been working on a tender exercise with Lagos site office . |
| 28 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition for the fourth time in 1995 . |
| 29 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition on British soil in 1995 . |
| 30 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |