Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 2 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 3 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 4 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 5 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 6 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 7 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 8 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 9 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 10 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 11 | She has n't heard Alina walking across the terrace , and has n't even been expecting her for another half-hour . |
| 12 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 13 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 14 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 15 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 16 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 18 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 19 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 20 | First of all , many people have been asking me on this programme in the past what credentials you people on the Council have for setting a budget . |
| 21 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 22 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 23 | Companies that use computers have been connecting them to each other for a decade , often using AT&T 's telephone lines . |
| 24 | Mr Fennell was worried because he thought nobody came to meet you , ’ he said , and she knew by his expression that the ancient tyrant had been upbraiding him on this account . |
| 25 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 26 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 27 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 28 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 29 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 30 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |