Example sentences of "been [v-ing] a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 2 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 3 | Somebody 's been eating a lot of those have n't they ? |
| 4 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 5 | The last few years her mother had been waging a war on all vermin , including bed bugs . |
| 6 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 7 | Teachers , with a professional nose for the job had been handling a range of social issues , especially under the general heading of PSE ( Personal and Social Education ) . |
| 8 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 9 | Yet Glasgow has been cultivating a townspace of such experiences for nearly a decade . |
| 10 | It 's for this reason that many of the shop stewards ' conferences that we 've convened in the last year have been pressing a policy of consolidating bonus pay into the basic rates and we 've achieved some small success in this in building brick and in one or two other industries . |
| 11 | ‘ He had no convictions prior to this incident and had been driving a car since 1957 . ’ |
| 12 | We 've been driving a car like this for years . |
| 13 | But if Berowne had been seeking a moment for further confidences it had disappeared . |
| 14 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 15 | The Tories have been celebrating a night of remarkable victories in the region 's local elections.They picked up seats on almost every council in their best performance in years . |
| 16 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 17 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 18 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 19 | For some time Rex has been conducting a correspondence with one of the brewers entirely in verse . |
| 20 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 21 | Its members , hoteliers , estate agents and other small businessmen , had been expecting a group of 19 ‘ ordinary ’ Russians . |
| 22 | It appears he and his boss have been having a relationship for two years . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |
| 24 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 25 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 26 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
| 27 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 29 | She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion . |
| 30 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |