Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gloucestershire have not been faring well in the Benson and Hedges Cup . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 13 | It 's been happening all over the world for quite some time . ’ |
| 14 | Right let's catch up with what 's been happening nationally on the football scene , and join Headley Feast . |
| 15 | It 's been smouldering deep below the tip for at least six weeks . |
| 16 | Friends say they had been looking forward to the holiday for months . |
| 17 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 18 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 19 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 20 | This is a quiet coup for the Association of District Councils , which has been lobbying hard against the counties ever since the districts lost power to the counties in the 1974 reforms . |
| 21 | The clinic , has been operating here at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford for a year on a trial basis — one of only a few in the Country . |
| 22 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 23 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 24 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 25 | They wore camouflage uniform and , from the looks of them , had been living long in the jungle . |
| 26 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 27 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 28 | Lynn says … she could n't have wished for a bigger meeting in which to make her first run for Britain … she 's been training hard since the end of the track season and is in good form |
| 29 | Up until then he had been acting temporarily in the post , awaiting the arrival of a more experienced businessman . |
| 30 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |