Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've also been sorting out the dates for the let shoots . |
| 3 | She and Rufus and Adam himself had all been putting forward the names of people they knew who might want to be part of a commune , likely people of the right sort of age and the right sort of temperament . |
| 4 | R. Miller had decided to resign , because his father , who had in fact been carrying out the duties of Sergeant since his son had rejoined the army in 1941 , was now too old and wished to retire . |
| 5 | It had been watching apprehensively the activities of Prince Charles 's brother Henry , who , his father , the Old Pretender , had written to Louis XV a few weeks earlier , ‘ can not bear to remain in Rome while his brother is in Scotland ’ . |
| 6 | In the meantime , Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office . |
| 7 | Woolton took on to his staff a small group of civil servants who had been working out the implications of the Beveridge report , and also the Uthwatt report on land values . |