Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 2 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 5 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 6 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 7 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 8 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 9 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 10 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Since about 1988 , Rob Gallagher ( aka Galliano ) has been putting together the cross-cultural , many-sided musical jigsaw that shares his nickname . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been sitting there the whole morning in nothing but that flimsy shift , just staring through the window at all that water . |
| 15 | The Commission has , for example , been monitoring closely the various measures attempted by Birmingham City Council to bring its admissions policy into line with the House of Lords judgment in respect of its school admissions arrangements ( see Chapter 4 ) . |