Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 2 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 3 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 4 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 5 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 6 | Interestingly , Ritchie ( 1985 ) proposes that massive sand-blowing and renewed machair formation on Pabbay began at about 4300 B.P. Machair development had been occurring earlier as a result of rising sea-level carrying glacially derived sand across the shallow , gentle off-shore shelf to create early machair beaches and dunes ( Ritchie , 1979 ; Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |
| 8 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 9 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 10 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 11 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 12 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 13 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 14 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 15 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 16 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 17 | Scorpios are supposed to be possessive , but Adam 's been acting more like a gaoler recently — he hardly allows you out of his sight . |
| 18 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 19 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 20 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 21 | Musicians have been waiting impatiently for an application to read printed musical scores and convert them into MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface files for output on keyboards and synthesisers . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's been lying there in a state of collapse , and not a soul has been next or nigh her ! ’ |
| 23 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 24 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 25 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 26 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 27 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 28 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 29 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
| 30 | He had a really nice family — he had a very good relationship with his wife — he was very bright , he enjoyed life , he read a lot , he had been teaching up until a month before hospitalization , and he had the will to live … |