Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 4 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 5 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 6 | The discontent with de Gaulle 's policies , which had been building steadily since 1958 , suddenly burst into the open . |
| 7 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 8 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 9 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 11 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 12 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 13 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 14 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 15 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 16 | The room has some striking windows bearing the stained glass coats of arms of the Swiss cantons , and can be visited when the district court , which has been meeting there since 1876 , is not in session . |
| 17 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |
| 18 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 19 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 20 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 21 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 22 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 23 | I been looking forward to this all day . |
| 24 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 26 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 27 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 28 | Inspector Naseby of all people , who had clearly been looking forward to this moment . |
| 29 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 30 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |