Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 2 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 3 | And if you read the scriptures , you 'll discover those where er he , you know er he was with Paul on one occasion , and er he 'd been eating with Gentiles and er then some Jews came up who believed that eating with er non-Jews even though they were followers of Jesus was wrong . |
| 4 | He 'd been sparing with words : it hurt to talk . |
| 5 | The Bishop , the Right Reverend Peter Ball , has been resting on orders of the Archbishop of Canterbury , since being questioned by police before Christmas . |
| 6 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 7 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 8 | Labourer Jamie Gorrie , 20 , of Horndean , Hants , had been helping with inquiries about his 15-year-old sister , who died 19 days ago . |
| 9 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 10 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 11 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 12 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 13 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 14 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 15 | Disabled people from all over the country have been competing for honours in a carriage driving contest . |
| 16 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 17 | Many families who get into difficulties have been struggling with problems that would daunt the most energetic and resourceful of people . |
| 18 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 20 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 21 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 22 | The Halifax , which has been experimenting with auctions for several months , had no fewer than 82 repossessed houses and flats in the sale . |
| 23 | Ohtake has recently been experimenting with objets trouvés , transforming them into architectural forms ; these are not , however , completely divorced from the spirit of the assemblages , collages , ink drawings and graffiti typical of his earlier work . |
| 24 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 25 | Word even came out of Tibet that the Odonata had been assisting at sky-burials , where corpses are left in sacred mountainous places for the attention of scavenger birds . |
| 26 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 27 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 28 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 29 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 30 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |