Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've been reading an interview in Groundswell where Johnny Boy says that he 's misunderstood and really he 's got a heart of gold . ’ |
| 2 | And you know I 've been sitting an hour . |
| 3 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been keeping an eye open for you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been waiting an hour , ’ I said . |
| 6 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 7 | I 've been consulting an astrologer , she thought . |
| 8 | For some years now I have been researching an area where a certain event took place . |
| 9 | At CeBIT Fair in Hannover Ericsson Business Networks and Intel Corp have been showing an emulation of a jointly-developed personal computer board designed to enable Windows machines to be linked to PABXs : the personal computer is linked to the switch through a standard ISDN-type connection so the micro can receive facsimile messages , voice-mail , video communications and the like — the thing is expected to appear as a product late this year . |
| 10 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 11 | Bradford Northern .. 8 New Zealand ....... 26 BRADFORD NORTHERN have been making an effort this season , and reasons to be cheerful at Odsal have included cheerleaders , improved results , increased gates , two men in the Great Britain rugby league squad , an Australian at half-back and a Welshman on the wing . |
| 12 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |