Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 2 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 3 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 4 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 5 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 6 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 7 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 8 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |