Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv prt] [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 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 6 | Rogers had been looking out of a window . |
| 7 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 8 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 9 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 10 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 11 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 14 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 15 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | It estimates ACAS could accelerate the schedule COSE 's been kicking around by a year . |
| 21 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 22 | He 's been shacking up with a girl from Bonanza 's club for months . |
| 23 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 24 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 25 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 26 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |
| 27 | Our database reviewer , Mark Whitehorn , has been playing around with a gamma version of the product — the last stage of testing before a a product goes into final code . |
| 28 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 29 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |