Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 4 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 5 | He 's been interesting himself in the new C.O. , Brenda Pridmore . |
| 6 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 7 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 8 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 9 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 12 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 13 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 14 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 15 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 16 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 18 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 20 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |