Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language used to describe this is reminiscent of Harrison , as well as clearly relating to the technique of Charlie Mears , Tiresias , and the dromenon- like patterning with which Eliot had been experimenting in the quatrain poems . |
| 2 | Local authorities have been cooperating with the health authorities in the provision of community care schemes for several years under special arrangements for joint finance . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been listening to the hoodoo doctors , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 5 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 6 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 7 | Doctors had been deeply worried about the 4,000 refugees from Prague , who had been camping in the embassy grounds in squalid conditions , surrounded by ankle-deep mud and sleeping in shifts on the available beds . |
| 8 | ‘ We have been co-operating with the Met police since November 30 in an effort to protect the public and prevent further bomb attacks , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 10 | We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us . |
| 11 | The witness said Gary had been swinging on the metal posts on May 11 when they collapsed on his chest . |
| 12 | Oxfordshiree champion Tim henman has been playing in the quarter finals of the Challenger Trophy against his doubles partner Chris Bailey … |
| 13 | Oxfordshiree champion Tim henman has been playing in the quarter finals of the Challenger Trophy against his doubles partner Chris Bailey … |
| 14 | I just been talking to a coupla friends of yours . ’ |
| 15 | If you have been fiddling with the boot files a lot anyway , you should have no bother with this , and will be able to use the in-built editor to make any changes you want . |
| 16 | The , we 've been working with the water authorities as I said , they 've pulled all the stops out to provide the actual water resource and we 've provided the tanks and the distribution systems . |
| 17 | At the application level , Unisys has been working with the database companies on distributed technology , including lock management . |
| 18 | Mr Mowatt and Mr Pirrie had been working through the user directories , archiving files for retention , and deleting others as advised by users . |
| 19 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 20 | This is when the pilots who have been hibernating during the winter months get their gliders out and start flying again . |