Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Despite the terrible heat , for a month now his conversation had gradually been becoming even more venal than normal . |
| 3 | She had been saving now almost forty years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We have been doing much more mundane , but nonetheless enjoyable , things . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 11 | By the early 1980s the Commission had been coming under increasingly severe criticism from conservationists and others . |
| 12 | Billy Johnson ( ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ , 3 April , page 23 ) may have been ‘ fond of saying ’ that if they had n't induced his birth a day early he could have voted in the 1997 election , but then he would have been talking even more crap than the verbals Steve Platt so kindly recorded for us . |
| 13 | NEEDLE Gun and Boloardo have the credentials and have been working well enough this Spring to land a Kempton double today for the Clive Brittain-Michael Roberts combination ( writes our Newmarket correspondent ) . |
| 14 | But you 've been working too hard this past while . |
| 15 | She had been feeling so very proud of her adventure in Horsfall Woods , which had turned out so well , not only for Rosalind but for the poor gardener . |
| 16 | I 've really been feeling very very low . |