Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 He 's obviously been losing sleep about it .
32 However , some account-holders have not completed the form and have still been receiving interest from which tax has been deducted .
33 I expect some of those boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin .
34 Methods of operation of the Awe barrage since passing into private ownership have again been causing controversy this winter .
35 This project is examining some of the longer term implications for housing consumers and housing policies of the important changes which have recently been taking place in the institutional framework of owner-occupied housing finance in Britain .
36 The problem will be aggravated by the way that people have recently been using credit more heavily than usual to finance what they buy ( see figures earlier in this chapter ) .
37 But they were a substantial minority , and those historians who have recently been studying inheritance have reached some interesting conclusions .
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