Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | It embraces the remains of a mediaeval well and has been made most aesthetic use of by the present owners of the manor as an interesting garden feature where flowering colours splash against the solid , more sombre stonework . |
| 2 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 3 | It is in the USA that residential preference has been invoked most as an explanation for decentralization ( Berry 1976 ) , perhaps partly as a return to old ideas of the frontier and the rural idyll , as Champion ( 1987 ) suggests . |
| 4 | JULIEANNE McConville ( 20 ) , has been modelling most of her life . |
| 5 | Cloud has been affecting most parts of the Midlands today but not quite as much as up there in Scotland although that 's gon na make a bit of an impression on us tomorrow . |
| 6 | Our disclosure will of course interest Fergie , who has been spending most of her time with John Bryan but undoubtedly still wears the red and black £100-apiece underwear which she bought from Janet . |
| 7 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 8 | Dance seems to have been affected most by psychological studies initiated by Freud and others and first exploited by Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman . |
| 9 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 10 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 11 | Mr Brian Harvey , owner of Skinnergate Cycles , said lorry congestion had been caused most mornings as delivery men jostled to complete their business before the 10.30 deadline . |
| 12 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 13 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 14 | His first , probably sound , instinct had been to keep most of his available troops to shield Edinburgh , while reinforcing Fort Augustus , the central point in ‘ the Chain' of three forts linked by the military road along the Great Glen . |
| 15 | As your float approaches the section where you 've been getting most bites , you dress the line again , following the downstream progress of your float with the tip of your rod . |
| 16 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 17 | It looks a bit chilly , and a team of balloonists have been feeling rather chilly today and have been spending most of the day in a fridge . |
| 18 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 19 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 20 | That 's where she 's been spending most of her time these last few months . ’ |