Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although it is the ideal course of action for John — allowing him to take advantage of some of the excellent schemes around at the moment as well as releasing cash that has been building up in his home over the years — he should look out for excessive costs that a remortgage can incur . |
| 2 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 3 | His Teflon-coating has been peeling off in the heat of the election campaign . |
| 4 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 5 | Opening the can of Coke that has been rattling round in your school bag all morning . |
| 6 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 7 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |
| 8 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 9 | Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music . |
| 10 | Listen , too much has been going on in my head of late . |
| 11 | However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : — |
| 12 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 13 | Can anyone give me a brief update on what exactly has been going on in my absence , i.e. who is being sold and why ? |
| 14 | that a major consultation has been going on in one is reminded of the earlier discussion about er St Albans , twelve thousand questionnaires have been sent out and there |
| 15 | Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 . |
| 16 | The project , which may be the subject of announcements around the UniForum trade show next month , is among a number of similar joint developments Oracle has been working on in conjunction with symmetrical multi-processor ( SMP ) hardware suppliers , including Pyramid rivals Sequent Computer Systems Inc and NCR Corp ( UX No 325 ) . |
| 17 | Williams has been working out in Miami under the supervision of Muhammad Ali 's old trainer , Angelo Dundee . |
| 18 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 19 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |
| 20 | The IBM Corp share price has been floating around in the mid-$50s range as the memory of the ghastly fourth quarter begins to fade and odd bits of encouraging news come out — but the first quarter figures will soon begin to loom , and evidence that they will not be too jolly comes from BMC Software Inc , which warns of continuing weakness in international sales , and that customers are delaying purchases to study alternatives to mainframes , which are falling out of favour . |
| 21 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd say you 'd been sitting out in the sun too long . ’ |
| 23 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 24 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 25 | Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . |
| 26 | And when they had been hiding out in Tom Rooney 's house , they had still fallen into the roles of master and maid , and on board ship Patrick 's attitude , influenced by Tom 's warning , had been stand-offish . |
| 27 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 28 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 29 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 30 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |