Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Ian Keeping , who diagnosed TB and has since been treating the doctor , said : ‘ The man stopped work immediately and we set about investigations to establish a diagnosis . |
| 2 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 3 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 5 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |
| 6 | FRANCE 's ruling Socialists had long been expecting the deb∘acle . |
| 7 | Indians had long been demanding the return of sacred relics , and both Stanford University and the University of Minnesota had already agreed to release their collections to Indians . |
| 8 | Instead , having been assured that Rick no longer had any violent feelings towards her , she earnestly pleaded that she had long been awaiting an opportunity to return it in person and apologise for causing so much distress . |
| 9 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 10 | The motor industry has already been lobbying the Treasury to widen the fuel tax gap further in favour of diesel , partly in the interests of reducing pollution . |
| 11 | Before the coup attempt , commentators had already been expressing the fear that economic decline could exacerbate the conflict inherent within the country 's heterogeneous racial structure . |
| 12 | He had already been doing the job unofficially , and now would be paid for it . |
| 13 | The profession had already been reviewing the role of the pension scheme actuary and this groundwork will be useful in responding to the calls which have been made for the professionals involved in pension funds , including actuaries , to play a stronger role . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 15 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 16 | Have just been reading the book of Joel . |
| 17 | But do you feel somebody wanted you to do that or has somebody just been watching the clock on the revivals and the clock 's ticked round to a point in time now ? |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 19 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 20 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've just been showing the insurance gentleman where the bells are kept , Mr Caretaker . |
| 22 | Some kind soul had just been keeping the garden under reasonable control — that was all . |
| 23 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 24 | ‘ Not too good , I 've heard , ’ said Greg , not adding that he had just been grilling the doctor who signed her second husband 's death certificate . |
| 25 | There were a few anxious moments , but as soon as I pulled on the glove she came straight at me , low and very fast indeed , much swifter of course than she could have done if she had still been carrying the equipment . |
| 26 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 27 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 28 | The two power stations awarded licenses by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , are Richborough in Kent and Ince in Merseyside , which have both been burning the fuel on an experimental basis for the last three years . |
| 29 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |