Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
| 3 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 4 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 5 | Most of the seven founder members had already been serving in France . |
| 6 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 7 | No-one told him that BCR trains had already been working into Craven Arms for more than a fortnight . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
| 9 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been hearing about Pat 's epic poem about the ‘ other side ’ , ’ said Alison . |
| 11 | Stan , as we 've just been hearing from Michael Medleycote , there 's a new initiative from the British Tourist Authority . |
| 12 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 13 | Just been talking to Tracey . |
| 14 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
| 17 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 18 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 19 | I 've just been shopping with Maggie this morning . |
| 20 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 21 | We must have both been thinking of Charlie , because he added kindly , ‘ Or a friend ? ’ |
| 22 | With a broad smile , David says : ‘ We have also been looking at Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and we 're just about to start on Marilyn Monroe ! ’ |
| 23 | There has also been fighting in Shaba region between followers of the Prime Minister ( Tshisikedi ) and followers of the recently ousted Prime Minister , Karl I Bond . |
| 24 | At Oracle Corporation , Phil Grannell , credit manager , has also been working with Graydon by using CreditScan . |
| 25 | Lancashire has also been working with BR to reopen the Blackburn Clitheroe Line in 1994 . |
| 26 | Maeve agreed that the old nun had probably been referring to Lady Eleanor 's hands . |
| 27 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 28 | Perhaps because she had not previously been living in London , Moira observed precisely what it was that dozens of well-bred young ladies were enthusing over ; the long pin-tucked nightdresses , which no one else was making , to wear as day or evening dresses . |
| 29 | Staff of the Global Seismology Unit had previously been working at Edinburgh and Eskdalemuir , under the control of the Meteorological Office , and at the Royal Observatory , Edinburgh . |
| 30 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |