Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 2 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 3 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 4 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 5 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 6 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |