Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 3 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 4 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 5 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
| 6 | Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon . |
| 7 | We have already been using a few special words , and as we shall be using several more , let's define the meaning of some words and phrases connected with pruning . |
| 8 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 9 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 10 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 11 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 12 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 13 | With businesses looking at cost cutting across the board , American Express has also been targeting a new market . |
| 14 | Now , as well as consuming the dry-roasted peanuts , you have also been making a close study of my wallpaper . |
| 15 | First , and best known , is GoScript while more recently Freedom of the Press has also been making a few headlines . |
| 16 | Computervision has also been demonstrating a pre-release version of its CVdesign parametric modelling software running under NT — to be made available once Windows NT starts shipping . |
| 17 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 18 | ‘ Some of the balls he played were magnificent and that is something we have probably been missing a little bit this season . |
| 19 | In 1935 , the very same Neville Chamberlain , who ten years earlier had even been considering a contributory earnings-related scheme , could tell the Conservative Party annual conference that better retirement pensions would be prohibitively costly , would release only a paltry number of jobs and would create grave legal and administrative problems in enforcing the retirement condition : ‘ Are you going to create a new penal offence — the offence of doing work ? ’ he asked . |
| 20 | But chairman , Ken Bates , who 's today been launching a close-season tournament the Londoners are involved in , refused to be drawn on his identity . |
| 21 | Chaot had reportedly been nursing a damaged rudder stock for some time , but as water was coming into the boat in increasing quantities , Boschmann decided to abandon ship as soon as other yachts on passage to the Caribbean could come to his assistance . |
| 22 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 23 | Gullible had n't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison . |
| 24 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |
| 25 | A typewriter which had until then been conducting a passionate solo had stopped . |
| 26 | Erm , has recently been teaching a little girl that lives next-door . |
| 27 | However , Ken Collins , chairman of the Environment Committee of the European Parliament , has recently been predicting a total EEC ban on lacing petrol with lead before the end of June . |
| 28 | Following legislative reforms , it has recently been making a big drive for personal pensions business which has proved successful . |
| 29 | It should be added here that the high clergy hardly recognized that they had actually been exercising a political religious power of a specifically sectarian or monopolistic type . |
| 30 | and it about five minutes , five or ten minutes before we left off , actually been doing a great , getting a machine in Jack , we dropped in there for a cup of tea and er I goes in |