Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen has been telling us how much you have helped him . ’ |
| 2 | Several times an unsuccessful council candidate in Washington East ( ‘ it would frighten the life out of me if I got in ’ ) he has been telling us how his work and his passionate concern combine . |
| 3 | Little Polveir does not get warmed up until he has gone three miles and Toby Balding has been training him specifically with Saturday in mind . |
| 4 | The issue of ‘ reprivatisation ’ , as it is quaintly termed , is also politically sensitive , and the Polish Sejm has been throwing it back and forth across the Chamber like a hot potato . |
| 5 | She has been facing them down . |
| 6 | Then she marched back to the front of the class , dusting off her hands one against the other like someone who has been handling something rather grimy . |
| 7 | In this respect , my analysis can be located close to the ‘ Alternative Economic Strategy ’ ( AES ) — which has been given its most lucid expression by the CSE London Working Group ( 1980 ) — in its acceptance of the need for socialists to offer constructive and credible proposals for regenerating economic growth and reducing unemployment even if these appear to fall short of ‘ true socialism ’ . |
| 8 | My main problem has been dragging myself away from my favourite armchair , prising my eyes from the television and relinquishing my white-knuckle grip around the remote control . |
| 9 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 10 | Well he said Mike must have said , what has been holding it up if I , we were under the impression that when she left London , she was finished with her property |
| 11 | Since DTS started , God has been teaching me not only through the lectures , but through my time alone with Him and also through living in close quarters with people ! |
| 12 | He has been nagging me actually since I threw his others , he threw his others away that when some more came in , but these are alright for girls ai n't they ? |
| 13 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 14 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 15 | Mum , that 's Carol , has been riding him out this week , while Dad , that 's Richard , the trainer and son , Tom have been masterminding and monitoring the build up . |
| 16 | If there is an incident when friends walk away because she has been ordering them around , explain to her why that happened . |
| 17 | Mark Kiff has been to weigh them up |
| 18 | She has been letting them in has n't she ? |
| 19 | Thus , as was intended , the Act has had most impact on consumer transactions , and its effect , together with the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , has been to make it hardly worthwhile to exclude liability in consumer transactions . |
| 20 | Glenys has been doing it ever since , han |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
| 22 | Because even after you 've applied and your policy has been issued you still have 14 days to return it to us with no financial obligation . |
| 23 | The SPF system refers only to protection from UVB rays , but this year a star rating system has been introduced which also categorizes sun products according to their UVA protection . |
| 24 | A new cellular phone has been introduced which directly links the car to emergency aid within seconds . |
| 25 | I wonder how long its owner has been trailing it up and down the length of England … |
| 26 | ‘ It 's the price that has been pulling them out as well as the thought of missing out on some paperwork . |
| 27 | So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another . |
| 28 | Mr Suharto has been tempting it back into his orbit by , for example , encouraging a Chinese business group to help it set up a bank , thus giving the NU 's members a useful stake in the economic largesse that the government can dispense . |
| 29 | While , on the face of it , his case might rest on its being detrimental to his career to suggest that he is at death 's door , it seems likely that much of the evidence , especially for the defence , will be called to no other purpose than to establish whether , to put it mor euphemistically than it will be put in court , he has been putting himself about . |
| 30 | Mr Duff said : ‘ His life all went wrong in 1986 but since then he has been putting it back together again . ’ |