Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 2 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 3 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 4 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 5 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 6 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 7 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 8 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 9 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 10 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 11 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 12 | Indeed if both the missile and its antidote have been improving at the same rate , we can expect that the latest , most advanced and sophisticated versions , and the earliest , most primitive and simplest versions will be exactly as successful as each other , against their contemporary counter-devices . |
| 13 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |
| 14 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
| 15 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 16 | The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces . |
| 17 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 18 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 19 | The owner has been calling by every few days to check on progress , but now is in Barbados . |
| 20 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 21 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 22 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 23 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 24 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |
| 25 | They had been fighting on the same side in a war which is often erroneously characterised as an ethnic conflict ; fighting for what the Serb guerrillas call the ‘ Muslim side ’ . |
| 26 | Been talking to a few folk , a nice woman from New Zealand , and some Glasgow lads , and an incredibly chatty pseudo-zealot from California . |
| 27 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 28 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 29 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 30 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |