Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 35 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 36 | Fleet Street , which has been spending millions for years trying get the formula right , holds the opposite point of view . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 39 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 40 | ‘ 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 . |
| 41 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 44 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 45 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 46 | He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way . |
| 47 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 48 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 49 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 50 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Any other woman would have been spitting angry at being kept waiting for four and a half hours . |
| 55 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 56 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 57 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 58 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 59 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 60 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |