Example sentences of "been [verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 During June and July many artists living and working in East and South East London have been opening their studios to the public , coordinated and publicised by the Whitechapel Gallery .
2 It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation .
3 And finally , surfers and canoeists have been pitting their skills against the biggest River Severn tidal wave of the year .
4 Legal and General Property have been presented their plans to the City Lands Policy Group and traders at the centre .
5 He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over .
6 Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity .
7 Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity .
8 Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot .
9 Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too .
10 I bus-hopped back to Hackney , feeling a bit of a prune sitting there in my suit in between a gaggle of wrinklies who 'd been blowing their pensions down the supermarket .
11 A team of Swiss researchers , however , has been focusing its efforts on the self-replication of closed , spherical structures by developing a so-called ‘ autopoietic ’ system .
12 Having won a libel case against British Airways over the much publicized dirty tricks , it 's set to announce losses exceeding fourteen million pounds for nineteen ninety two , and all airlines have been tightening their belts in the recession .
13 Hundreds of classic car owners have been putting their vehicles to the test on the race track .
14 Celebrities also have been voicing their opinions of the end to the ‘ fairytale romance ’ .
15 John Lewis , the district manager in charge of Lowermoor , had been voicing his concerns about the safety of the treatment works for some years before the accident .
16 Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in
17 After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay .
18 Me and Aunt Emily 's been working our fingers to the bone , waiting for him . ’
19 Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’
20 Been following your letters to the editor , though .
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