Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 32 | On the day she took her overdose , Pamela had been taking her end-of-term examination in Biology and English , but thought that she had done very badly . |
| 33 | He had been telling his senior officers the story only that afternoon — the tale of T'sao and the Tanguts . |
| 34 | All the while I had been telling my young passenger what I was going to do . |
| 35 | I stopped playing and tossed my trumpet to Kim who had been showering our remaining advertising leaflets on to the melee . |
| 36 | Charity had been obeying her silent ‘ shoulds ’ most of her life . |
| 37 | Meola accused Arsenal striker Ian Wright of ‘ talking trash ’ and claimed England players had been calling him fat in exchanges as bitter as the Boston Tea Party . |
| 38 | Police believe Mr McEvoy had been using his blue Ford Sierra car , registered D234 HAJ , on Saturday evening . |
| 39 | He had been wearing his turned-down wellington boots and long rubber apron , and the gold in his teeth had flashed with reflected sunlight . |
| 40 | Finally , one of the doctors who had been advising him prescribed complete rest of the voice for a full two weeks before his next recital . |
| 41 | ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit . |
| 42 | Mr Stevenson had been on holiday in Wales , and he had been exploring our beautiful mountains and valleys . |
| 43 | She had been addressing her half-eaten Danish pastry , unable to meet his penetrating eyes as she delivered her little speech . |
| 44 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 45 | They seemed surprised and told him that they had been burning their rubber boots . |
| 46 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 47 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 48 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 49 | They had been having their usual discussion about food . |
| 50 | The human rights organization Amnesty International claimed in a report published on Jan. 10 that torture and summary executions by the Senegalese security forces were becoming more common in the southern region of Casamance , where a separatist movement had been intensifying its armed struggle since mid-1990 [ see pp. 37799-800 ] . |
| 51 | Angela asked us for some help with her wedding day look , she had been growing her old hairstyle out but realised it was n't going to be long enough for her wedding day in September . |
| 52 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 53 | After her husband 's departure , Margaret had been feeling very miserable and frustrated , was having difficulty concentrating at work and had been avoiding her usual social contacts . |
| 54 | Her partner 's passionate hobby was shooting , and she knew from their telephone calls that he had been spending his spare time at a sports club which had a range . |
| 55 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 56 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 57 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |
| 58 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
| 59 | And I 've been bleeding her white ever since . |
| 60 | You can renew your loan at any time providing you 've been meeting your regular repayments . |