Example sentences of "it [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 2 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |