Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 8 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |
| 9 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 10 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 11 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 12 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 13 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 14 | The Soviet Army , has also been getting in on the act . |
| 15 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |
| 16 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 17 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 18 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 19 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 20 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 21 | It is time to look more closely at the imperative for which we have so far been getting along on a rough formulation , ‘ Face facts ’ . |
| 22 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 23 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 24 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 25 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 26 | Now angry frustration replaced satisfaction , and she experienced a little spurt of apprehension amid the bleak realisation that he had n't been speaking out of generosity after all . |
| 27 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |
| 28 | This must be the first year when new rock boot models have n't been coming out of everyone 's ears . |
| 29 | The horse , who had steadily been moving along in a quiet way , gave a strange little leap and she realised she had inadvertently dug her heels into his side . |
| 30 | Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny . |