Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 2 | We have been taking a lot of coal out these last few days , everyone has been putting the hours in . |
| 3 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 4 | If a pet cat has access to the garage where someone has been filling the car 's radiator system with antifreeze at the onset of winter , the animal may see a small puddle on the garage floor , where some has spilled . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone has been playing a stupid game with me . |
| 6 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 8 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 9 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 10 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 11 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 12 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 13 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 14 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 15 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 16 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 17 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 18 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 19 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 20 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 22 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 23 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 24 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 25 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 26 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 27 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 28 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 29 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 30 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |