Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been taking at least one call a day for more than a year . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been juggling for about 5 months and it 's a good place to meet new friends . |
| 3 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 4 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 5 | And the candlestick is beautiful — dare I say we 've been lusting after just such a one for ages , and now we can enjoy your gift . |
| 6 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
| 7 | We have been pushing for more effective action from the NIO for years and it is utter nonsense to say otherwise , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 9 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 10 | Those attached to long subduction zones , such as the Pacific Plate , have been moving at comparatively high velocities ( 60–90 mm a- 1 ) , whereas plates lacking extensive subducting boundaries have experienced slower rates of movement ( below 40 mm a-1 ) . |
| 11 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 12 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 13 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 14 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 15 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 16 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 17 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 18 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 19 | Thunderbirds have been going for over half a century … and with the next generation Its they 're set to continue for another twenty five years Fab . |
| 20 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 21 | MY work has been written in sand and after my death will disappear in a decade or so , ’ wrote August Bournonville ( 1805–79 ) , the Danish choreographer whose ballets are still in the repertory , and whom the Danes have been celebrating with yet another Bournonville festival in Copenhagen . |