Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have latterly been speaking only of causal circumstances , and not causes . |
| 2 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 3 | He 's only been playing seriously for a couple of years , ’ said Luke , hardly flinching as a car cut right in front of him , missing them by millimetres . |
| 4 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
| 5 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 6 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 7 | Dell and AST have apparently been working closely with Sunsoft , say sources , and might be a good bet for the mystery OEMs Sunsoft is to trot out this week . |
| 8 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 9 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 10 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 11 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 12 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 13 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 14 | He had not been searching specially for them so that , as he wrote in his journal , " It is sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomologist 's mind to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete catalogue " . |
| 15 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 16 | Greg Hocking had not been looking forward to ringing Jackson 's the publishers about the Walter Machin papers . |
| 17 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 18 | Gloucestershire have not been faring well in the Benson and Hedges Cup . |
| 19 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 20 | Bouguereau has not been selling well at auction in recent years , and it is possible that the recent exhibition at Borghi & Co. in New York has stimulated a revival of interest in his work . |
| 21 | ‘ The horses have not been running well for three or four months , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Forrester has not been playing much in the reserves but came straight on to the bench after his injury . |
| 23 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 24 | I can not imagine why the Conservatives have not been campaigning harder on this issue . |
| 25 | ‘ We have been disappointed , ’ says the review , ‘ that issues have not been coming forward for a ruling before positions have been taken . |
| 26 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 27 | And we 've generally been moving already with our big investment that we 've already got in Child Care , let's not forget that , towards this philosophy of that 's enshrined in the Children Act , which is building up parental responsibility and encouraging and supporting parents containing their own children , rather than being forced to give them up . |
| 28 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 29 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 30 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |