Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 2 | JULIEANNE McConville ( 20 ) , has been modelling most of her life . |
| 3 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 4 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 5 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 6 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 7 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 8 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 9 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 10 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 11 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 12 | Our disclosure will of course interest Fergie , who has been spending most of her time with John Bryan but undoubtedly still wears the red and black £100-apiece underwear which she bought from Janet . |
| 13 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 15 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 16 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 17 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 18 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 19 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 20 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 21 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 22 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 23 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 24 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 25 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 26 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 27 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 28 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 29 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 30 | We had been studying all of the information we had collected in an effort to reconstruct the events of that operation . |