Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing to suggest the crimes are connected at this stage but wqe are keeping an open mind . |
| 2 | The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results . |
| 3 | Legal moves have begun to evict thousands of travellers who 've been holding an illegal festival at a beauty spot for the past five days . |
| 4 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 5 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 6 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 8 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been designing a new collection . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory . |
| 11 | I 've been feeling a wee bit sick . |
| 12 | I 've been feeling a wee bit |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 14 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat . |
| 16 | I 've been paying a full stamp since nineteen seventy four . |
| 17 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 18 | I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns . |
| 19 | I 've been having a mad one have n't I ? |
| 20 | For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it . |
| 21 | I 've been burping an awful lot , in my stomach . |
| 22 | They 've been restoring a battered old narrowboat . |
| 23 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 24 | In recent years , however , some scientists have been trying a new approach , ‘ cold fusion ’ , which involves ‘ changing ’ the behaviours of atoms at room temperatures . |
| 25 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 26 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 27 | So far we ( and he too , perhaps ) have been imagining a dark animal : an American brown bear , a Russian black bear , a reddish bear from Savoy . |
| 28 | Schoolchildren have been getting a helping hand with their nature studies — from a world famous expert . |
| 29 | The vast majority of obese people have been eating a normal unhealthy diet , and changing is a matter of education and attitude as well as trial and error . |
| 30 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |