Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 2 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ At the time of the murder he appears to have been lying low in a barn near Gainsborough . |
| 4 | Cleveland teenager Carrie Gallagher , 13 , who caused concern when she was reported missing from her home in Declarden Road , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , had been staying overnight with a friend . |
| 5 | It had been lying idle since a Saturday afternoon in October , with begonia tubers in its grass-box and a bundle of yellowing newspapers balanced on its engine . |
| 6 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
| 7 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 8 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 9 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 10 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 11 | Some of the horses have been living wild on a hillside overlooking the farm . |
| 12 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 13 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 14 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |