Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work . |
2 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
3 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
4 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
5 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
6 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
7 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
8 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
9 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
10 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
11 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
12 | Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week . |
13 | A second rapper causes batted eyelids for a time , and the addition of a second guitar during an encore of ‘ Go Wild ’ suddenly give the sound the extra bite it 's been missing all night , but if 25th Of May are going to appeal on musical merit as a vehicle for their politics , they 'll have to update their sound , experiment and hit harder than this . |
14 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
15 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
16 | It 's been selling all day . |
17 | It 's been banging all day because I ca n't be bothered to go out there and shut it . |