Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe has been learning the great man 's speeches and studying his mannerisms , but does he really look likely Winston at all ? |
| 2 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 3 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 4 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 5 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 6 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 7 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
| 8 | Especially since by then Laura had been earning a great deal of money , and all the past difficulties had more or less been solved . |
| 9 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
| 10 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 11 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 13 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 14 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 15 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 16 | I have been giving a great deal of consideration towards the most effective Council Tax structure to be adopted based on the experiences of Community Charge to date . |
| 17 | Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool . |
| 18 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |