Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 3 | The outstanding performers were Scott Loftus , of Old Loughts , who scored four , and Old Felstedians Chris Maitland and Paul Surridge , who has been holding down a place with National League First Division outfit Canterbury since leaving school . |
| 4 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 5 | To find out what effect all this burning may be having on the upper atmosphere , particularly upon global warming , the Brazilian space institute , in collaboration with NASA from the United States , has been carrying out a research programme . |
| 6 | First off though our reporter Fiona Mcbride has been finding out a bit more about Glasgay . |
| 7 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 8 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 9 | Yet for almost 20 years a black-owned company , Writers and Readers , has been putting out a line of books in Britain and America , called ‘ the Beginners Series ’ , designed to tell black children and students about history , culture and famous people . |
| 10 | It is worth pointing out that Thameslink 2000 has been put back a year . |
| 11 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 12 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |
| 13 | He should have been carrying out a test run but refused because the machine is blacked by the NCU . |
| 14 | Seen a a lot of other things I would n't have seen if I 'd have been working down a pit or behind a shop counter or something . |
| 15 | I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they 'd got no shoes to fit me . |
| 16 | It may have been driven around a bit before it entered the water . |
| 17 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 18 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 19 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 20 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 21 | Several had been taken on a yacht at sea . |
| 22 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 23 | One had to forget — because one could not live with the thought — that this graceful , fragile , tender young woman with those eyes , that smile ( those gardens and snows in the background ) had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart , into the gentle heart that one had heard beating under one 's lips in the dusk of the past . |
| 24 | And then when you 're okay when you 've been riding round a bit you take them off . |
| 25 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 26 | A correctly fitting sack is essential to enjoyable walking , especially when carrying a heavy load and the SA harness and hip belt on the Condor have been beefed up a bit from the Jaguar and Panther models . |
| 27 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 28 | According to the US PC Week personality gossip column , Motorola Inc staffers have been passing around a model of an Intel Corp Pentium chip complete with a miniature Three Mile Island nuclear cooling tower . |
| 29 | I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor . |
| 30 | The problem faced by Detroit 's producers is that , while some new American cars have been panned as dumpy and boring , the Japanese have been rolling out a stream of glittering and highly praised new vehicles . |