Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing most people do when they diet is to cut out many of the foods they like . |
| 2 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 3 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 4 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ we 've been assuming somebody is helping him and we 've been going round all his contacts . |
| 8 | What you 've been going out seven weeks ? |
| 9 | I 've been knuckling down all the time . |
| 10 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been knocked out cold . ’ |
| 12 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 13 | From the start of this week the savings institutions have been handing over magnetic tapes to the Inland Revenue giving details of all interest-earning accounts , however small . |
| 14 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 15 | These arts of war have been nurtured over thousands of years . |
| 16 | Other ones here , an anonymous call from Birmingham , I have been beaten up weekly by my ex-husband because he 's been told to pay more . |
| 17 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 18 | We have been written off all season , but we must keep believing . ’ |
| 19 | The vultures have been buying up other bonds likely to be similarly treated . |
| 20 | Previously , only trade in new horn was banned but , with a single horn fetching as much as £30,000 , Chinese dealers have been buying up big game trophies for export to the Far East . |
| 21 | Sixty-hour weeks have been chalked up several times ! |
| 22 | At least two whales believed to have been affected by sonar have been washed up dead on the beach at Abu Dhabi . |
| 23 | Sudden plagues of these creatures have been occurring over recent years which settle upon living reefs and devour the coral polyps . |
| 24 | Talks broke down today between the Soviet and Japanese delegations who have been negotiating over recent territorial clashes over culture-krill-harvesting operations off the island of Sakhalin . |
| 25 | Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income . |
| 26 | Where significant innovations have happened , it is astonishing how often through history other individuals or groups have been working along parallel lines of thought . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I can confirm we have been carrying out certain inquiries , including the forensic re-examination of material . ’ |
| 28 | PLANS to institute a pigeon cull in both Petersfield and Alton town centres have been thrown out this week . |
| 29 | Various measures have been taken over recent months to help to improve traffic safety on the sites . |
| 30 | FOR almost three years John Major and Norman Lamont have been trotting out smug assurances that all was well in Tory Britain . |