Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 5 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 6 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 7 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 8 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I have not been using a dust-pan . ’ |
| 10 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
| 11 | I do hope my son has not been making a nuisance of himself . ’ |
| 12 | Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon . |
| 13 | We have already been using a few special words , and as we shall be using several more , let's define the meaning of some words and phrases connected with pruning . |
| 14 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 15 | The defects of the present set-up were inherited from the previous regime and those who see Prean 's point of view and are aware of the dissatisfaction of many players at the way in which computer points are calculated had already been planning a more advanced system . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 17 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 18 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 19 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 20 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 23 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 24 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |
| 27 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 28 | With businesses looking at cost cutting across the board , American Express has also been targeting a new market . |
| 29 | Manufacturers have also been putting a lot of resources into providing a wide range of dry foods especially formulated for marine fish species . |
| 30 | Now , as well as consuming the dry-roasted peanuts , you have also been making a close study of my wallpaper . |