Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 2 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire have not been faring well in the Benson and Hedges Cup . |
| 4 | We have n't that much experience of working with thirteen to fourteen year olds , so we have been collaborating closely with the teachers in devising what could go into each lecture . |
| 5 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 6 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 7 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 9 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 10 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 11 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 12 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 13 | A Mirror Group Newspapers spokesman adds : ‘ Since Mr Maxwell died , Helen Liddell has been helping out with the group . |
| 14 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 15 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 16 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 17 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 18 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 19 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 20 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 21 | In London the Shahs ambassador , Parviz Radji , who had been inter alia , the lover of Princes Ashraf , has been agonizing daily over the turn that is country had taken , the corruption of the court of which he was apart , and the inglorious way in which it has now all collapsed . |
| 22 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 23 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 24 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 25 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 26 | They have been contributing generously to the upkeep of the 800 mosques in Britain ; all they ask in return is a say over the appointment of the imam . |
| 27 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 28 | The incalculable Boden had somehow worked his way round once again into forbidden territory , had been lurking somewhere in the bushes , waiting for them to leave . |
| 29 | Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent . |
| 30 | Product differentiation and improvement has been occurring steadily over the years and now includes metal and wooden window frames , doors , storage tanks , household furniture , beds , as well as a much improved range of braziers , and tin trunks . |