Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 2 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 3 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
| 4 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 5 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 6 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 7 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 8 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 9 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 10 | They 'd pretty well packed their bags anyway , she said , it 's been raining there every day . ’ |
| 11 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 12 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 14 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 15 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 16 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 17 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 18 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 19 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 20 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 21 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 22 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 23 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 24 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 25 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 26 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 27 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 28 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 29 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 30 | Shimon Samuels , meanwhile , has been lobbying both the German and French governments , questioning their lack of endeavour in hunting down suspects . |