Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have latterly been speaking only of causal circumstances , and not causes . |
| 2 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 3 | He 's only been playing seriously for a couple of years , ’ said Luke , hardly flinching as a car cut right in front of him , missing them by millimetres . |
| 4 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
| 5 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 6 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 7 | Dell and AST have apparently been working closely with Sunsoft , say sources , and might be a good bet for the mystery OEMs Sunsoft is to trot out this week . |
| 8 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 9 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 10 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 11 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 12 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 13 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 14 | And we 've generally been moving already with our big investment that we 've already got in Child Care , let's not forget that , towards this philosophy of that 's enshrined in the Children Act , which is building up parental responsibility and encouraging and supporting parents containing their own children , rather than being forced to give them up . |
| 15 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 16 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 17 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |
| 18 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 19 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 20 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 21 | In your do-it-yourself practice you have already been talking aloud to yourself . |
| 22 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 23 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 24 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 25 | When the comm blinked into life , I saw face that I vaguely recognized — a Famlio enforcer named Pulvidon , who had lately been rising rapidly through the ranks . |
| 26 | The defendants admitted that they had both been drinking heavily on the night of the offences . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , Pip , ’ replied Joe , ‘ how we 've both been looking forward to working together . |
| 28 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 29 | The Soviet Army , has also been getting in on the act . |
| 30 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |