Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 2 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 3 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 4 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 5 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 6 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 7 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 8 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 9 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 10 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 11 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 12 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 13 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 14 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 15 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 16 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 17 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 18 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 19 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 21 | He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal . |
| 22 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
| 23 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 24 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 25 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 26 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 27 | She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls . |
| 28 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 29 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 30 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |