Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 2 | Brintons have been manufacturing fine quality woven carpet over 200 years / . |
| 3 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 4 | he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid |
| 5 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 6 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 7 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 8 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 9 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |