Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 2 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 3 | The warm weather which helped Etam in the summer has proved to be a disadvantage in the run-up to autumn trading and the chairman , Alan Howard , says the group has been trading slightly below budgeted levels . |
| 4 | Despite the terrible heat , for a month now his conversation had gradually been becoming even more venal than normal . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been noticing how very much roof you have , ’ she said to my mother . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been living in very poor lodgings , but hope soon to find better ones . ’ |
| 7 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 8 | She had been saving now almost forty years . |
| 9 | I think it 's level , I think the , the benefit just stays the same cos the , the cost has n't increased it 's been like that for oh she 's been paying round about twelve pounds a month now for as long as I can remember . |
| 10 | ‘ But we — Claire , and I , and a lot of other women — have been wondering how much longer you were going to make money writing articles about the women 's movement before you felt a duty to take some kind of action . ’ |
| 11 | It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course . |
| 12 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 13 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
| 14 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 15 | The debate about the vulnerability of land-based missiles has been going on so long that a few cynics have begun to wonder if it matters all that much . |
| 16 | Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years |
| 17 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 18 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 19 | Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling . |
| 20 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 21 | So went out and I was feeling really tired but I thought well I just been getting up very early in the mornings so |
| 22 | I 've been holding back again this passion . |
| 23 | We have been doing much more mundane , but nonetheless enjoyable , things . |
| 24 | Anyway , all the other young men were away at the war , Gustav must have been spending just about all his time indoors , young love wove its spell and … ‘ ow 's yer father ? ’ |
| 25 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 26 | And the blinking machines been letting down so much ! |
| 27 | Comrade Wu has been kindly giving us Chinese lessons in the evening whenever we have some spare time , so you can tell that his tuition , what little I was able to attend , has been coming in very useful . |
| 28 | By the early 1980s the Commission had been coming under increasingly severe criticism from conservationists and others . |
| 29 | I ge to be honest though erm half the problem 's been I think that it 's been spoiling off so much crap , you know when I was doing those little things |
| 30 | =ime of relentless violence in the province as the I R A continues its killings , Loyalist paramilitaries have also been carrying out almost one attack a day . |