Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Lord President aware that the Prime Minister has not been doing very cleverly lately in Question Time ? |
| 2 | ‘ She has n't been lookin' too well lately , ’ he murmured . |
| 3 | It has n't been raining very long , and the quicker we can move , the more likely we are to get them out before conditions deteriorate to the extent that the passages become impassable . ’ |
| 4 | It will be dark , which is troublesome , but the wind has n't been blowing so long . |
| 5 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 6 | Well , when you 've got all the big names , and the Dennis Taylors , the Jimmy Whites , both who 've won it before , Jimmy has n't been playing too well recently , but you 've got a whole clutch of players who could well come through and surprise everybody . |
| 7 | Dave , Steve Davis has had a terrible you know , preliminary start to the season , this is the start of the official season , but he has n't been playing very well at the moment . |
| 8 | Somebody has n't been figuring too well , Jackson . |
| 9 | Very hectic at the moment it 's should 've normally been dropping off quite a lot this time but |
| 10 | He knew he had not been dozing very long because the smells of fried bacon and toasted bread still drifted through the house . |
| 11 | But Graeme Knox , managing director of Scottish Amicable Investment Managers , said that the deal had not been progressing quickly enough . |
| 12 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 13 | Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out . |
| 14 | In order to find out why things had not been going so well on the land as in the urban areas we must once again go back to the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | But Mosley had not been smiling so much the week before in London . |
| 16 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 17 | Well she phoned and umm asked how Oliver was and everything and just said oh how are you and I said oh I 've not been feeling very well over the weekend . |
| 18 | Despite the terrible heat , for a month now his conversation had gradually been becoming even more venal than normal . |
| 19 | Upon extracting the dealer 's name from the client , he would tear over to the culprit , who had usually been working quite innocently off a duplicate lead card . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose we 've both been racing long enough now to know racing is racing . |
| 21 | You 've both been working very hard — two of the best in the Khedive 's service — and you have n't been able to find anything . |
| 22 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've probably been working too hard , ’ he said , giving her a penetrating stare . |
| 24 | I 've really been feeling very very low . |
| 25 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 26 | He had n't been listening very hard at the time . |
| 27 | We had n't been getting on too well , you see . |
| 28 | Jennifer had been restless and we had n't been getting on very well . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps I have not been trying hard enough . |
| 30 | ‘ We have not been trading profitably there for quite some and there comes a point when one has to say enough is enough . ’ |