Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 2 | But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you . |
| 3 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've been arriving in scores , each delegation with one appointed English speaker ’ said an official . |
| 5 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 6 | The staff say you always look as if you 've been sleeping in haystacks these days . |
| 7 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 8 | New York used to house the head offices of scores of top companies ; they have been leaving in droves . |
| 9 | Potted primulas and other plants that have been standing in frames can be brought into the greenhouse now . |
| 10 | The regions which are leading are in some cases different from those which have been leading in terms of the historic trends over the last four months . |
| 11 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 12 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 13 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |
| 14 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |