Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 2 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 3 | The writers and compilers of the stories we have been looking at in this chapter knew that . |
| 4 | The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s . |
| 5 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 6 | Far from being a new threat , evolutionism was something that the conservative forces had been battling with for several decades . |
| 7 | ‘ The machine has a great potential for use at the centre and its restoration has been a project that we have all been working towards for some while . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When it works , it 'll be nothing to be ashamed of It 's what I 've been working towards for most of my professional life , ’ the doctor said defensively . |