Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 2 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 4 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 5 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 6 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 7 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 8 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 9 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 10 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 12 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 13 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 14 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 15 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 17 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 18 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 19 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 20 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 21 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 22 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 23 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 24 | Something approaching a personal crisis had been building up since Nietzsche 's return from the unforgettable distress of war . |
| 25 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
| 26 | In fact , such series have been building up around us gradually , until they have now become a major part of the market . |
| 27 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 28 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 29 | that he finally gave way to the tears that had been building up inside him since Michael 's visit . |
| 30 | ‘ The thing is , it 's been building up inside me for weeks . |