Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 2 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 3 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 4 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 5 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 6 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 7 | Flushed with the success of Operation Goldenrod , in late summer , Hurley and his CIA colleagues lent Sami Jafaar and other members of his clan to the DEA office in Bern , Switzerland , for Operation Polar Cap , aimed at closing down an arms/drugs-dealing business run by Arman Jirayer Haser , a CIA asset and long-time associate of the Syrian cartel , who had been making millions out of secret American arms shipments to Iraq . |
| 8 | Opposition leaders called for an investigation after Namaliu , who had been trailing 1,600 votes behind rival candidate Oscar Tammur at an early stage of the count , secured victory following an unexplained power blackout while the final ballot boxes were being processed . |
| 9 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 10 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 11 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 12 | They told him it was a welcome to Petrograd by the revolutionary workers and sailors : they had been roaring one word " Lenin " . |
| 13 | He 'd been smoking 50 a day for 40 years . |
| 14 | He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way . |
| 15 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 16 | He felt he had been upsetting one or two people and that the game would be easier to control without him around . |