Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pers pn] [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 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 4 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 5 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 6 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 11 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 12 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 13 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 16 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 17 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 18 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 23 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 25 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |